eSpeak tip

[Michael Whapples]

When you say it won't go fast enough, do you mean that the words per minute 
is not great enough? If so, you could change the conversions in the 
speech-dispatcher espeak conf file, espeak uses words per minute for its 
speed.

Does play use alsa? I found that that alsa and speech-dispatcher doesn't 
always stop the speech immediately, I even found a delay in stopping 
festival with speech-dispatcher when using alsa. I'm not sure it was quite 
as much as one second, but enough that it would still be speaking the last 
phrase whilst starting to start speak the next (e.g. when using screen 
review keys in speakup moving from line to line, without waiting for things 
to finish, not present with oss as two sounds cannot play at the same time). 
It might be something to do with alsa, anyone know?

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey at pcdesk.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 8:24 PM
Subject: eSpeak tip


> I've found that if you change aplay to play in espeak-generic.conf,
> atleast for me with grml, it gets rid of the one-second pause when
> killing aplay. I like it so far, but it just can't go fast enough.
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