Re: [orca-list] Missing text line, and other problems

["Lukas Loehrer" <listaddr1 gmx net>]

The pitch settings in orca goes from 0 to 9. Why is 5 and not 4.5 the
default? I would expect the value in the "middle" to be considered the
standard setting.

Best regards, Lukas

Tomas Cerha writes ("Re: [orca-list] Missing text line, and other problems"):
> > > 4.  When using "Speech Dispatcher", the default Pitch setting of 5 does
> > > not give the normal pitch.  Instead it gives a higher pitch which
> > > sounds wrong.  A Pitch setting of 4.5 gives the normal pitch.  With the
> > > GNOME speech driver the Pitch setting of 5 is correct.
> >  
> > I can confirm this, but I think this is to a certain extend a matter of 
> > taste. I tend to raise the pitch a bit higher. In addition: The 
> > differences between higher pitch for capitals and the lower pitch for 
> > links has to be bigger than in Gnome-speech in order to realize  it.
> > Hermann
>
> What Jonathan wants makes sense to me.  The default Orca value should
> map to the Espeak default pitch.  I'll try to "fix" that as well as the
> progression which causes the pitch difference for capitals.
>
> best regards, Tomas
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