speech-dispatcher rate and volume settings for espeak 1.25

[William Hubbs]

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 15:33 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > If I type:
> > espeak "This is a test."
> > then
> > spd-say "This is a test."
> > the second time is much louder than the first, and should not be since
> > the default volume is supposed to be the same.
> >  Sun Jun  3 15:21:25 2007 [765657]: child: synth command = |echo "This is a test." | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v en -s 160 -a 200 -p 50 --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav|
> >  Notice the "-a 200" on the espeak command line above.
> >  Speech-dispatcher is setting the espeak volume to maximum, which is not
> >  what I would expect with those settings.
> 
> I think your eSpeak settings are correct. Please, what is the
> DefaultVolume setting in your speechd.conf? I?d expect it is 100 (max),
> which explains your situation (100 gets mapped to 200).

Hello Hynek,

Yes, that is the setting in speechd.conf.  I'll take a look at this
again.  Thanks much for the information.

- --
William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh at gentoo.org
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