Re: [orca-list] speech rate key bindings only partly work

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Have you reset the rate for both link voice and default voice? 
I'm not sure how a voice rate change is supposed to work  when one is dealing with mixed content, i.e. using 
more than one 
type of voice. 
Is it supposed to speed up or slow down all voices, and do so proportionally if say link voice is set at 90% 
and default 
voice at 94%. 
Also, perhaps something you are aware of or do not need, but in case you do not know...:
You can speed up espeak so that it can speak faster than the default 410 words per minute, or maybe it is 450 
wwpm now?. 
Go in to your speech-dispatcher directory, in ~/.local/share on some systems, /etc on any machine.
In the modules subdirectory you will find espeak.conf. 
Starting at line 25 you will finnd the voice rate section. As comments explain values are in words per 
minute. 
You can change any of theese. If you want espeak to speak faster when it is used by speech-dispatcher, e.g. 
when orca is 
set to use espeak. If you will be changing the top speed by very much you will probably want to also raise 
the normal rate 
also so that the increment for each percent change is not too large. I personally do not like to go over a 6 
wpm step for 
each percent, e.g. if I set the top speed at 600wpm I will usually set the normal rate at 300wpm. I also will 
raise the 
minimum rate a bit to keep the steps a bit smaller for the slowest half of the range, usually no more than 
4wpm as even 
those new to synth speech do not ever need/want to listen at the default minimum of 880wpm. 
Be advisedthat thi will also effect speakup is yooour system uses speechd-up, and any app that uses 
speech-dispatcher for 
that matter.
I wish speech-dispatcher would make such a change in the espeak.conf file that ships with it as I find that 
many people 
want to work faster than the default max rate, but do not know that it is possible to change this, mluch less 
how to do 
it. Even a simple sed script could be sent with it and mentioned in the installation, but many users will 
have 
speech-dispatcher preinstalled and won't get to read such a message, so I say make a small change in the 
default to take 
care of some users. 
1 3 6 hundred for min. normal., max. rates would help many users and not make the jumps between each percent 
change too 
large to hurt anyone much.
--
B.H.
     
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:13:52PM -0400, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Greetings!  With all the Orca revamping going on, I'm not sure now is the
> best time to bring this up, but it seems to have been a problem for a while.
>
> I created key bindings alt-control-f and alt-control-s to speed up or slow
> down the Orca speech rate respectively.  When I press the key I want
> repeatedly, Orca will say "faster" or "slower" with increasing or decreasing
> speed, as I expect.  Sometimes, as when I'm arrowing through links on a Web
> page, it will speak at the rate I've set.  Other times, such as on other
> parts of a Web page, in the actual text of a Bookshare book I'm reading with
> the Web reader, or in a text document using gedit, Orca will read at the old
> rate regardless of what I've done with my bound keys.
>
> I usually have Orca going as fast as it can, but for reading books and some
> other things I need it slower.  Those seem to be the situations in which the
> key(s) do not work.  Am I missing something here?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Al
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp