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

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

You can try adding the line to the espeak-data/voices/en/en file.
I currently have a line:
pitch 65 120
added to my en file.
HTH, Willem

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Krishnakant Mane wrote:

> 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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