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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Kendell, I owe you one. I can confirm that worked for me. Whether or not
it will work for the person registering the complaint, I dunno. All one
can do is try.

Thanks much!
--joanie

On 09/03/2016 01:06 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> 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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