Re: [orca-list] strange pitch issues with espeak when encountering all caps

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Yup, that's it exactly. So I didn't even have to send that email grins.
Oh well, at least there's a bug filed, which means it will eventually
get fixed.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Is it this bug?
> https://its.freebsoft.org/its/issues/31653
>
> On 05/10/2016 11:44 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > I'm reporting this to the orca list mainly so this bug doesn't get
> > forgotten in the deluge. I'm pretty sure it's been reported before, but
> > I don't know if there's anything Joanie can do to mitigate it, I seem to
> > remember it's not an orca issue but a speech-dispatcher one.
> > Speech-dispatcher is reporting the correct pitch, rate, etc info to orca
> > so it's a speech-dispatcher problem, not orca. Steps to reproduce. Use
> > either the espeak or espeak ng synths, it doesn't matter which with
> > orca. Enter some text in all caps into a text document, followed by a
> > new line, and some in all lower case. Read the all caps text. The pitch
> > will rise like it's supposed to. But when you read the text that's in
> > lower case, the pitch drops back to normal but the ... I don't know how
> > to describe this. Frequency? Inflection? It's subtle. The pitch is
> > normal, but espeak still sounds vaguely chipmunk like, and I know that's
> > not a very good description of it, but it's the best I can come up with.
> > Luke, would you mind looking into this when you have time? I know you're
> > busy and this isn't a critical bug or anything, I'm just posting this so
> > it's still on your radar, it's not a number one priority or anything.
> > Can anyone else confirm this? This seems unique to espeak, no other
> > synth that I've ever used anyway, ibmtts, pico, does this.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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