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

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

Interesting, does it stay slow if you go to type a new message? I've not used rate change shortcuts in a long 
time, and 
very occasionally ever, so do not remember how things worked for me. 
This is worth exploring a bit to see just how it behaves under what conditions.
Making a 2nd profile can be very fast as you can start out with your cuerrent settings and just changeee the 
voice rate
 and perhaps punctuation or something for ebooks.

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 02:12:57PM -0400, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> 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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