Re: [g-a-devel]gnome-speech + festival backend speed ...

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:42, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> 	Just trying to setup my demo, I found gnome-speech going at half speed
> - rather strange. I could no longer find the speed slider in the speech
> dialog (weird) but I'm guessing I left it at 2x speed.

The speed dialogs have been changed to "words per minute" (approximate
of course).

I think the default is 80 wpm which is __reeeaaaalll__ slow. 
Gnopernicus team made the change to better spot spelling errors, or so I
was told.

It's been suggested that the speed settings not be restricted to the
per-voice settings in the "Voices" dialog, but have an inherited default
also, which could be tweaked up or down according to user preference.  I
don't think there's a bug or rfe logged on this yet, but am not sure. 
If you don't see one, please file :-)

-Bill

> 
> 	In which case, is this arithmetic possibly upside down:
> 
> --- drivers//festival/festivalspeaker.c 14 Nov 2002 00:49:43 -0000     
> 1.2
> +++ drivers//festival/festivalspeaker.c 11 Feb 2003 13:44:25 -0000
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ festival_set_rate (Speaker *speaker,
>         gdouble stretch;
>         gchar *command;
>   
> -       stretch = 200/new_value;
> +       stretch = new_value / 200;
>         command = g_strdup_printf ("(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch
> %lf)\n", stretch);
>         festival_write (fest_speaker, command);
>         g_free (command);
> 
> 	Didn't have time to investigate; how is the speech speed intended to be
> set in gnopernicus these days ?
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
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Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>