Question with punctuation pitch change

[Halim Sahin]

Hi Tomas,
On Mi, Okt 07, 2009 at 05:00:24 +0200, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> > 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)?
> 
> Espeak doesn't change pitch, but Orca does, so the espeak's indication
> is a little redundant in this case.  It might be a good idea to allow
> switching it off.

ACK

> > 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.
> 
> I'd prefer 2. since it should be set once for all espeak voices and it
> seems too specific to be controlled by Speech Dispatcher.

ACK it's a speech-dispatcher task.
 
> Also note, that the change suggested in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440114 would work around this
> problem, since it would verbalize punctuation character names within
> Orca and send them to the speech system as ordinary text.

NACK :-(.

What about other clients which want to use speech-dispatcher?
They need to do the same work. speechd-up sbl, brltty.
yes Tomas this should be implemented in speech-dispatcher (not in orca
or in espeak).
BTW. raising the pitch is more practicable and doesn't make the
synthesizers more verbose.
And this behaviour would be expected by all newby's because it's already done
this way in other popular screenreaders.

Just my 2 cents.
with kind regards
Halim


> Best regards
 
> Tomas
> 
> 
> 
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