Re: [orca-list] Espeak voice variations are not displayed in Orca preferences dialog.

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I don't have a ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf file, but I do
have a system wide /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf file. Should I
make this change in this file or should I create a file in my
~/.speech-dispatcher directory?

On 28/11/12 16:31, Kyle wrote:
> If you require capital letters to be spoken in a different pitch, you
> may notice that Orca's default uppercase pitch is not different enough
> from the default voice for some people using eSpeak. In that case,
> simply raising the pitch of the uppercase voice should help. Otherwise,
> eSpeak was designed with a capital letter click that in my opinion is
> even better than using a different pitch. In your
> .speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf, change the line that says
> # DefaultCapLetRecognition  "none"
> so that instead it says
> DefaultCapLetRecognition  "icon"
> This will turn on the capital letter click. If the first letter of a
> word is capitalized, eSpeak will click once. If the entire word is
> capitalized, eSpeak will click twice rapidly. If a word has mixed case,
> Orca splits the word and eSpeak clicks at each capital letter.
> Naturally, you can combine both pitch and click if you like. Hopefully
> this will help move some people away from commercial speech
> synthesizers, some of which are badly broken due to lack of code
> maintenance, in favor of open and free speech software that is much
> better maintained and kept up-to-date with the latest system libraries
> and CPU architectures.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
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Christopher (CJ)
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