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

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

Make the change in the config in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf


On 11/28/2012 06:38 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> 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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