Re: [Espeak-general] Faster speaking

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On 21 Jun, Peter VÃ¡gner <pe...@da...> wrote:

> The two words I've been able to identify so far are folder and col. 
> I am not sure if the fact letter o is immediately before l or there 
> might be something else .

Yes, there is a change (in some languages) to 'l' which is not followed
by a vowel.  In the previous version eSpeak, the 'l' was lost at high
speeds.  The change in eSpeak 1.43.46 is to keep the 'l'.

Do you notice this only with "ol", or also with other vowels (when the
'l' is not followed by a vowel)?  Does it sound OK at slower speeds eg.
200)?

This change affects English and Slovak, but not all languages.  It
should be an improvement.

> letters c, z and s sound a bit more sharper than they used to at
> least this is my feeling but it is not such a huge difference and I
> am not able to come up with the words which are wrong. It's still
> acceptable with the speed increase I can get used to it I think.

There may be small change in the length of these sounds.

Do you hear the difference with Slovak 'c' and 's' only when they are
not followed by a vowel?  I made some consonants a bit louder at high
speeds, but that doesn't affect 'c' and 's' when followed by a vowel.   

Perhaps that was not a good idea.  I'll change it back again.