Question with punctuation pitch change

[Jonathan Duddington]

On 07 Oct, Hammer Attila <hammera at pickup.hu> wrote:

> When I using Speech-dispatcher with espeak or espeak-generic module
> and Speech-dispatcher would like say a punctuation character, the
> pitch is always changed a lower value, and I hear a little echo when
> the punctuation character is spokened.

> How can I disable this feature with Speech-dispatcher? This is
> possible?

No.  It's a feature of eSpeak.  It's purpose is to distinguish the
announcement of a punctuation symbol from a spelling of the name.

For example to distinguish "," and the word "comma".

Is it only the echo which is objectionable, or both the echo and the
change in tone (it's not actually a change in pitch)?

If this feature is generally unpopular, then I can remove it.  It some
people find it useful then I can make it optional, either with:

1.  A option in the voice file.
or
2.  An option in the eSpeak configuration file (espeak-data/config).
or
3.  An parameter which can be changed using the libespeak API, which
Speech Dispatcher could use.

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