dectalk issues

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

How about generating the caps start and stop on the fly depending what
the pitch is at the time and just add a number and issue the command?
And maybe indicate that this is what you are doing by something special
in those fields so people can change if they want.


William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:59:50PM -0400, Trevor Astrope wrote:
> > William, is it possible to set defaults for caps_start and caps_stop for 
> > each voice and if the user changes the pitch via the sys file, they would 
> > also need to change the absolute value in the caps_start and caps_stop 
> > files as well?
>  
>  Trevor,
> 
>  the caps_start and caps_stop strings are not just pitch values; they
>  are actual strings that are sent to the synthesizer.  The defaults are
>  commands that change the pitch, but they could be anything a user wants
>  them to be.
> 
>  What I have found looking over documentation is that relative pitches
>  are not supported.  So, we can't tell the dectalk to raise or lower its
>  pitch by a certain amount, we are telling it to set its pitch to a
>  certain value.
> 
> I guess what I'm wondering is, since pitch shifting isn't supported by the
> dectalks, I'm not sure that messing with the pitch for caps indication
> as the default is a good idea.  What do you think?
> 
> William
> 
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