Re: Orca speech rate and other Gnome settings

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:18:12AM EST, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I found that eSpeak expects values between 80 and
> 450 (default: 175) - at least on the command line:
> <http://espeak.sourceforge.net/commands.html>
> So I assume there is a conversion somewhere between the Orca Preferences
> and the call to the eSpeak TTS. I didn't find that kind of conversion in
> speak_lib.h (nor in several other source files from eSpeak).
> The values in the Orca Preferences (0-100) clearly don't represent words
> per minute.

Orca uses speech-dispatcher, and speech-dispatcher applies a conversion, spreading the available synthesizer speech rates over 0-100

Luke