dectalk express updates

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     I'm pretty sure the default for average pitch is 120.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Hubbs" <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: dectalk express updates


> Jason,
>
> do you know what the default for [:dv ap xx] is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> William
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:50:30PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
>> The value for the [:dv ap XXX] is a frequency, in HZ. This is the base 
>> pitch
>> of the synthesizer. If you set [:dv pr 0] which allows for no pitch range
>> (the default is 100) you will get a robotic voice at the frequency the ap
>> value has. ap stands for Average Pitch. I think the lowest acceptable 
>> value
>> is 50 and the highest is somewhere between 500 and 600. No idea about
>> incremental adjustments though.
>> Jayson
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "William Hubbs" <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>
>> To: "speakup mailing list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:55 PM
>> Subject: dectalk express updates
>>
>>
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I just updated the dectalk express driver based on a manual that Kirk
>> > sent to me.  The new driver version is 2.17.
>> >
>> > We were using the wrong value for the volume command:  It should be 
>> > [:dv
>> > g5 xx] where xx is between 60 and 86, so I have defined that and set 73
>> > as the default.
>> >
>> > Also, I have set the default rate and the range of rates to match what
>> > the manual says, which is:  Default rate is 180 and range is from 75 to
>> > 650.
>> >
>> > I am unable to find the documentation for the command we are using to
>> > set the pitch, which is [:dv ap xx].  I need to know what the possible
>> > values of xx for this command are, and whether you can give relative
>> > values like [:dv ap +50] or something similar.  Using absolute pitch
>> > settings for caps indication makes it so that a user can't set their
>> > pitch to anything away from the default value.
>> >
>> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > William
>> >
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