[Emacspeak] Re: Changing espeak pitch, accent

[Patrick Smyth <patricksmyth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Krzysztof,

Thanks for the quick and considerate reply. I evaluated the 

(dtk-set-language "en-us:victor")

_expression_ and then restarted the speech engine with C-e C-s. It seemed to have no detectable effect on the voice. I tried a few other strings, like "en-uk" and "en-us:betty," and the voice seemed to stay the same.

Any guesses as to why the voice is not changing? Also, what is the default Espeak voice? When I use emacspeak on Windows, it uses the default espeak voice (en-us, I think), while the Emacspeak Espeak voice on my Linux Mint system seems to be off, though I'm not experienced enough to say exactly what's different.

If I can get Emacspeak to use the default voice and pitch, I probably won't need to explore setting the pitch.  

Thanks again.

Best,

Patrick

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 6:13 PM, T.V Raman via Emacspeak wrote:

Krzysztof Drewniak via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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