question about DECtalk express voices and pitch

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
>From what I can tell, it looks like the actual range of the [:dv ap XX]
command is from 50 to about 360.  Hope this helps.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: question about DECtalk express voices and pitch


> Hi.  I'm replying to myself because I didn't keep ano of the replys from
> the list.
>
> I changed line 221 of speakup_dectlk.c from
>
> { PITCH, "[:dv ap %d]", 80, 0, 100, 20, 0, 0 },
>
> to read
> { PITCH, "[:dv ap %d]", 80, 0, 200, 20, 0, 0 },
>
> Basically, this changed the max value for pitch from 100 to 200.  The
> female voices are about 100 higher in pitch than the male voices.  To
> get everything working the way I want, I had to change the caps_start
> and caps_stop in /proc/speakup to higher values.  My script for betty
> looks like this.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #changes the default voice on the DECtalk express to Betty
> echo 4 >/proc/speakup/voice #changes voice
> echo 150 >/proc/speakup/pitch #makes sure the pitch stays right
> echo 300 >/proc/speakup/caps_start #needed cause female voices are
> higher
> echo 150 >/proc/speakup/caps_stop #keeps pitch from going to low
>
> My editor wrapped a comment in this message, but you get the idea.
>
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
>
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:05:15PM -0500, kenny wrote:
> > Hi.  I just started using a DECtalk express.  I notice a strange problem
> > when I use any voice except 0 (Paul).  If I change to another voice, it
> > seems to work.  However, the pitch will change if I do anything like
> > spelling a word with a capital letter.
> > For example:
> > change to voice 4 (Betty).  She sounds ok, but not exactly like my
> > software DECtalk.  If I change the pitch by spelling a word with a
> > capital letter or use insert 2 then inssert 3 to mess with the pitch the
> > voice changes.  After that point, changing the pitch has little
> > effect.  Voice 0 (Paul is the only voice that doesn't have this problem.
> > In the case of Betty, the pitch becomes to low and you can't get the
> > voice back unless you echo 4 to /proc/speakup/voice.
> > Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone know a solution?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >           Kenny
> >
> >
>
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