Speakup Parameters Still Broke

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at ftml.net
Wed Oct 22 04:53:37 EDT 2008


Yes. Same here.

I had chalked it up to the fact that I was a step or two behind
state-of-the-art since I was limiting myself to the packages from the
Lenny distribution, but yesterday I got the latest speakup sources
following Tony's steps, and the peculiar pitch and rate are as you
describe them. It requires a touch of the rate and pitch controls in
speakup to make them behave again. Using the talkwith script once again
destroys my preferred settings until I can touch the rate and pitch
keys.

Chuck


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:44:00AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Anyone else observe these remaining problems?
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:07:03PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > When I run speakupconf save, all seems to be OK and I don't get any
> > "invalid parameter" errors.  But when I do a 'speakupconf load' I do
> > get one error when catting the values back.  I can't figure out a way
> > to make the operation more verbose so I can't tell you now which
> > variable is causing the error.  However while using the softsynth plus
> > espeakup 0.3, I do get a strange deal.  When doing a 'speakupconf
> > load', I get the fore-mentioned cat error followed by a drastic
> > reduction in pitch and rate.  Whats more, the values in the sudo
> > variables are not changed but yet the sound changes.  If I use the
> > speakup keyboard functions to reset pitch and rate, then all is fine
> > again.  I will include a script of what I did when this happened.
> > 
> > When I was doing this with my speakout synth, I got the single error
> > on the load function but I did not experience the pitch and rate
> > changes I did with software speech.
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> > Script started on Mon 20 Oct 2008 08:55:21 PM MST
> > lnx3:~# speakupconf load
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > lnx3:~# cdcd soft
> > bash: cd: soft: No such file or directory
> > lnx3:~# cd /etc/speakup/soft
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat pitch
> > 4
> > 
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat rate
> > 9
> > 
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# speakupconf load
> > cat: write error: Invalid argument
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat rate
> > 9
> > 
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat /sys/module/speakup/parameters/rate
> > 9
> > 
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# cat /sys/module/speakup/parameters/pitch
> > 4
> > 
> > lnx3:/etc/speakup/soft# exit
> > exit
> > 
> > Script done on Mon 20 Oct 2008 09:00:01 PM MST
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