A minor change to espeak-generic.conf

[Michael Whapples]

I think there was a change in espeak and the way rules for numbers are done 
in version 1.14. May be there is a problem with more than one point in a 
number with the new method?

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Michael Whapples
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: A minor change to espeak-generic.conf


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> Is it just me, or has anyone else running 1.14 noticed a slight bug,
> where for example "linux-2.6.18" is simply spoken as "linux-2.6"? I
> haven't tested this with espeak alone, but I believe it to be a bug in
> espeak, rather then in speech-dispatcher/speechd-up, because I didn't
> see that when running espeak 1.11, before upgrading to 1.4. BTW, the
> ".18" isn't the problem here, it does the same thing with saying linux
> 2.6.17.4 for example.
>
> Greg
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> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:16:25PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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>> I thought it was up to 1.14 Has he done some more versions already?
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>> Also, I just looked at my espeak.generic.conf and I am using aplay to
>> play the temp file.  It has been working fine here.  Now I do have the
>> OSS emulation include in my alsa stuff if that makes any difference but
>> it is definitely aplay and not play.  The only complaint I notice so far
>> is the capital letters which for me is raise of pitch; there is a slight
>> delay but on this machine I don't see as much delay as I do on my
>> laptop.  I forget what I have different on this box but I'll take a look
>> later.  I haven't upgraded to 1.14 yet.  I'm still on 1.11 but plan to
>> upgrade soon.  That's why I was asking about the correct version number.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:52:55PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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>> > I have found that making a minor change to espeak-generic.conf works
>> > better with espeak version 1.16 and also keeps espeak from having to
>> > create a temp file.  Note that this is only tested with espeak 1.16, so
>> > may not work on earlier versions, but definitely test.
>> >
>> > There is a line in espeak-generic.conf that says something like
>> >
>> > "echo \"$DATA\" | speak -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME -p 
>> > $PITCH --stdin -w /tmp/speak.wav | aplay /tmp/speak.wav"
>> >
>> > I have changed my espeak-generic.conf to say:
>> >
>> > "echo \"$DATA\" | speak -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME -p 
>> > $PITCH --stdin --stdout |play -t wav -"
>> >
>> > Sorry, but I haven't gotten it to work with aplay yet.
>> >
>> > Not only does this get rid of the temp file, but performance of espeak
>> > 1.16 is greatly improved, since there seems to be some sort of slowdown
>> > compaired with previous versions of espeak when writing to the temp
>> > file.  Using the temp file method, I was getting strange problems like
>> > the first part of the speech being the same as what was previously
>> > spoken followed by a switch in the middle to the end of what was
>> > supposed to be newly spoken.  The stdout method fixes this.
>> >
>> > Hth someone,
>> > Lorenzo
>>
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