[Emacspeak] Re: Changing espeak pitch, accent

[T.V Raman <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Krzysztof Drewniak via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:


Absolute pitch control will not play well 
with voice-lock, especially since pitch is one of the few parameters
that Espeak does provide for voice control. 
 > Hi Patrick,
>
> If you're looking to change the "accent", you can use dtk-set-lang in
> order to change the voice variant used by espeak. For example, I use
> (dtk-set-language "en-us:victor") in my init file because I like that
> voice better.
>
> As to an absolute pitch control, I haven't added one, but I can look
> into that if you'd like me to.
>
> Yours,
>
> Krzysztof
>
> On 6/5/2022 15:12, Patrick Smyth via Emacspeak wrote:
>
>     Hi Emacspeakers,
>
>     Hope you're all having a good weekend. I wanted to ask about
>     changing the voice features like pitch and accent while using
>     Espeak with Emacspeak. It seems there's only one custom variable,
>     which sets the speaking rate. I've been playing around overwriting
>     some functions in the espeak-voices.el, though that doesn't seem
>     like a particularly efficient way to set options. I've searched on
>     this list, and it seems that there's been some discussion of
>     providing a user API for this, but I didn't find much that's
>     actionable. Any guidance here would be appreciated.
>
>     Best,
>     Patrick
>
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