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

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

I went into preferences, then to voice, then went to first uppercase and 
then hyperlinks.  In uppercase and hyperlinks, I then moved over to key 
bindings and found my modifications there.  I therefore take it that the 
key bindings covered all voices, though I don't know enough to be 
positive about that.  (I only have a default profile at this point.)

Now, I've just hit the keys to decrease the rate several times.  The 
rate is quite slow as I type this, but is at the usual rate when I arrow 
through either your text or mind in this message.

Thanks for the suggestions, though.

Al
On 09/05/2014 01:28 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> 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
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