transport and capitol letters

[Jim Danley]

The code that handles pitch change for upper/lower case letters is common
to all synthesizers.  I imagine that if you tested several examples you
would find that your results are not consistent.  There is a known bug
which sometimes causes characters or parts of a synthesizer command
to be dropped into the bit bucket.  Whenever you press a key speakup
sends a command to the synth to go silent.  Every synth reacts a bit
differently to this command in so far as how long one should wait before
sending more characters.  What's needed is a method of waiting x amount
of time, on a synth by synth basis, before sending more data to the synth.
No solution has yet been offered, but I know it will be fixed someday.

	Jim


On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:52:04AM -0700, raul at asmodean.net wrote:
> I wanted to pass along this little bug I found which I'm not sure is
> related to just the transport but I also have a speakout and this does not
> surface.
> 
> If I have a word which has one capitol letter in from such as at the
> beginning of a sentence and I'm reviewing by character the transport's
> pitch goes up on the first letter to indicate it is capitolized however
> the second letter is also spoken with the higher pitch, once I get to the
> third letter the pitch returns back to normal.  This can be misleading
> since there might be times that the first two letters are capitolized
> whether by design or accident and it would be difficult to spot.
> 
> I'm not a programmer else I would just fix it and offer my changes.  It
> seems that what ever code tells the transport to raise the pitch isn't
> catching the code to lower it again on a lower-case letter.
> 
> I'm also using the cvs version of speakup on kernel 2.2.18.
> 
> 
> 
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