Re: [orca-list] mbrola in Orca

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd users sf net>]

On 03 Jul, Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:

> As far as I know you can not change the rate,pitch, and volume of the
> MBrola voices. I had this same problem when i tried getting them
> working with Orca a while back, and never could find a way to change
> the rate,pitch, and volume so gave up on those voices.

I don't know how you are using the mbrola voices, but they are capable
of changing rate and pitch (and volume although that's done in eSpeak).

For example, from a command-line compare:

espeak -v mb-en1 "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
espeak -v mb-en1 -p 100  "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
espeak -v mb-en1 -s 250  "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"
espeak -v mb-en1 -a 200  "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9"

This uses eSpeak as a front-end for mbrola.  The eSpeak voice "mb-en1"
uses the "en1" mbrola voice. You can use "mb-nl2" for the "nl2" Dutch
voice if you have that installed.