Re: [orca-list] Changing the speed of espeak-ng

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Francisco and all,

libsonic is included in Slint in the sonic package.

Cheers,
Didier

 Le 24/02/2021 à 19:50, Arkadiusz Kozioł via orca-list a écrit :
> TO have higher speeds than 390 wpm you should install libsonic from AUR, 
> but maybe not in last releases, i had to install it a few months ago. 
> What do you mean inflection? You can change pitch_variation such as in 
> nvda in /etc/speechd.conf
>
> W dniu 24.02.2021 o 19:19, Francisco Tissera via orca-list pisze:
> > Hi Peter and all,
> >
> > The edit in said file totally works, so now i'm running Espeak at 600 
> > words per minute without a single problem for now.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip.
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> > Francisco.
> >
> > On 2/24/21 12:45 PM, Peter Vágner via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In that file
> > > /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf
> > > there are options like this...
> > > EspeakMinRate 80
> > > EspeakNormalRate 170
> > > EspeakMaxRate 390
> > >
> > > That means the slowest rate speech dispatcher will allow will be 80 
> > > wpm, the default will be 170 wpm and maximum would be 390 wpm.
> > > I have modified EspeakMaxRate to 550 and that gives me much faster 
> > > speech rates.
> > >
> > > I don't know about the inflection but I think it might be possible to 
> > > craft a voice file for espeak with given properties including variant 
> > > and inflection.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > Dňa 24. 2. 2021 o 9:25 Vsevolod Popov via orca-list napísal(a):
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > How do I change the speed of the espeak-ng? When I set the speech 
> > > > rate to 100 in speech dispacher it speaks a little bit slow.
> > > >
> > > > I tried modifiing /etc/speechdispacher/modules/espeak-ng.conf but it 
> > > > didn't help. I changed the maxrate parametr to 400.
> > > >
> > > > Also is it possible to change the inflection of this synthesizer 
> > > > like you can do in nvda for windows?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > >
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