Speech Dispatcher plus Espeak

[Steve Holmes]

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I now have the latest version of Espeak (1.11) configured to support
Rate, Volume, and Pitch from the espeak-generic.conf with Speakup and
Speech Dispatcher.  Some of you may already be doing this but I thought
I'd share my parameters just the same.

For speech rate, I use add=180 and multiplier=90.
For pitch, I use add=50 and multiplier=50.
For volume, I use add=100 and multiplier=100.

Note these values are explained inside the generic.conf files for speech
dispatcher.  I would be curious if anyone else is using same or
different values for these.  My biggest chalenge was speech rate which I
now think I have the range covered (80 Words per min. to about 290 words
per min.)  I was originally having with low pitches causing seg faults
and numeric overflows but I think I have that all fixed now.  It would
seem that if the parameters passed to espeak are out of range,
unpredictable things may happen.  Also, I notice in my generic.conf file
that speech dispatcher's output is piped via echo to speak and no wav
file is collected.  The only performance issue I notice is if I used
pitch change to denote capital letters.  There seems to be a noticable
delay before speaking a capital letter.  If I change speakup to use
"Cap" instead, the delay is not noticed.  I think this last bit may also
be true with other synths using speech dispatcher though; I've noticed
it with Dectalk.

Are other espeak users configured similarly?

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