Re: [orca-list] How are you increasing the eSpeak rate beyond what speech-dispatcher permits?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
while I'm no expert at this, there's a way to increase the maximum rate
speech-dispatcher will use for espeak. It's in
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf for regular espeak, and
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf for espeak ng. Ng is any
version after 1.48.15 for those of you who don't know. And joanie the
experience is *not* aweful. I don't know who wrote that but whoever it
was frankly does not know what he/she is talking about. If you define
something as aweful when you need to change one line in a config file
... I'll shut up there because if I don't I'll rant. Anyway there's a
config option called  "# Maximum rate (100 in speech-dispatcher)"
After that, the option looks like espeak-max-rate followed by a value in
wpm (words per minute). Nvda's default value for this is 450 wpm, but 
speech-dispatcher  sets it to 390. Nvda does something odd with espeak
by having a "rate boost" check box that automatically increases the
speech rate by some order of magnitude. I'm not sure of the precise
numbers but it's quite a bit faster than I can understand. Past 450 wpm
espeak uses a library called "libsonic" to speak faster, and the results
can sound a bit odd. I think the highest espeak can go is something like
1600 words per minute, so you can set this to as high as you want. Save
and close, and restart speech-dispatcher and you're good to go.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> To quote from twitter: "While I can't increase the eSpeak rate as in
> NVDA, the experience with Orca is awful."
>
> Bit of a buzzkill after all the positiveness, but anyway.... I have
> vague recollections of people working around this. It would be great if
> someone could save me the trip and give me the answer. <smiles>
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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