eSpeak - Introduction

[Kirk Reiser]

Hello and welcome Jonathan: It is a refreshing addition to the
available software synthesis programs of today.  If you are interested
in extending it's capabilities to some degree, inline control
parametres for the common adjustable settings would be nice.  Being
able to modify speed, pitch, intonation and the like is very useful
for producing features such as pitch change on capital letters for
example.  The doubletalk hardware synthesizer from RC Systems has a
nice and concise command language set you may want to look at as an
example.  You can find documentation for various synths at
ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/linux/goodies/synths-documentation.  It
isn't important to support the entire command set but the basic
commands would make (e)speak more flexible for the blind computer
user.

A very nice job on your synth in my opinion!
  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061