Re: [orca-list] just wondering why inflection of espeak is not good in orca?

["Krishnakant Mane" <hackingkk gmail com>]

hello,
I have tried to change the espeak pitch range but can't find where
exactly the parameter be set?
can any one guide?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 18/06/2008, Jonathan Duddington <jonsd jsd clara co uk> wrote:
> On 18 Jun, Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> wrote:
>
> > I don't know why the prosody and/or fundamental frequency contour
> > might be any different.
>
> > I'm also not sure how to determine the available variants via a
> > method call and I'm CC'ing the eSpeak folks on this mail in hopes
> > they might be able to help.
>
> You can list the eSpeak voice variants by the eSpeak API call:
>
> espeak_ListVoices(voice_spec)
>
> where you set the "languages" field in the voice_spec parameter to the
> string "variant".
>
> The equivalent terminal command is:
>   espeak --voices=variant
>
> eSpeak's voice variants can be thought of as the equivalent of the
> "head size" adjustment in some other synthesizers.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "inflection"?  Perhaps you mean "pitch
> range"?  Is that what the NVDA "inflection" control changes? If so,
> that can be changed by the eSpeak API call:
>
> espeak_SetParameter(espeakRANGE, value, 0)
>
> where "value" has a range of 0 to 100 with a default of 50.  A low
> value gives a monotone.
>
> It's interesting that you prefer a greater pitch range.  I prefer the
> default (which is why it's the default :-).
>
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