Re: [orca-list] Espeak voice variations are not displayed in Orca preferences dialog.

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any speech-dispatcher configuration 
option that will automatically raise the pitch of a speech synthesizer 
when a capital letter is encountered. This must be done from within Orca 
by increasing the pitch of the uppercase voice. It has been suggested 
here that eSpeak likes a slightly larger pitch increase, so 7.0 on the 
pitch slider is easier to hear than the default 6.0. My guess is not 
that you are encountering all lowercase text, but rather that you are 
unable to hear the difference between a pitch of 5.0 and 6.0 using 
eSpeak. I myself have a little trouble distinguishing between capital 
and lowercase letters using the default setting, although if I go back 
and listen really closely, I can tell that there is indeed a pitch 
difference, though it is quite small. This appears to be a common 
problem, so hopefully either the eSpeak module in speech-dispatcher can 
be fixed to make the difference more noticeable, or Orca's default 
uppercase pitch can be changed from 6.0 to either 6.5 or 7.0, at least 
when eSpeak is chosen as the default voice. Hope this helps.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk