Re: [Espeak-general] Faster speaking

[Peter V. <pe...@da...>]

Hello,
I am currently testing the latest version of eSpeak at maximum speed.
I think it's stil understandable well.
Ofcourse for continuos reading I wouldn't use this speed but as a speech 
output for a screen reader this is great.
I am now running self-compiled library version with NVDA.
Note for other NVDA users: Currently the maximum speed value is 
hardcoded in NVDA's synth driver so it'll need a change once this 
enhancement is released as a part of the stable version.

On a different issue: I haven't been testing eSpeak regularly recently. 
Today I have updated from eSpeak 1.43.03 straight to the 1.43.46 and 
noticed quite dramatic change of some sounds.
E.G. z, c, l and maybe s letters sound a bit differently in some 
positions than they used to. I've tested with czech and slovak voices. I 
don't know how to better look at the issue and try to resolve possible 
conflicts. Can you remember changes which might have affected this?

It's difficult for me to come up with a list of problematic words at 
this point.
Most frequently this can be observed while reading english text with 
eSpeak set to one of these languages.

Yes this may sound strange, but it's very frequent. I am not of course 
getting english like spelling nor I am expecting it.
there is no automatic detection so I am simply not switching voices when 
language of the text changes and I've got used to it eventhough it's a 
strange configuration.

Thanks for the help

Greetings

Peter

On 21.6.2010 12:13, Jonathan Duddington  wrote:
> I have made some changes which I hope give a small improvement to
> eSpeak at faster speeds.  Also I have increased the speed range to 80
> to 450 words-per-minutes, with a default of 175 wpm.
>
> These changes are in eSpeak version 1.43.46 at:
> http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html
>
> I think the speech is better at 390 wpm (which was the previous maximum
> setting).  However, I can't understand the speech at 450 wpm, so I
> don't know whether that's useful.
>
> Do the Klatt synthesizer voice variants sound better than the original
> eSpeak synthesizer at high speeds?
>
> Speeds and intelligibility may vary for different language voices.
>
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