Re: NT emacspeak progress and request for help

[Gary Bishop <gb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You hit the nail on the head. Monotone is one of the few modifiers that is 
implemented by the free MS speech engines. So paul is mike, and 
paul-monotone, is mike with the monotone modifier. betty is mary. I don't 
know what to do with paul-animated and paul-bold, etc. I can change the 
pitch but changing pitch-range (though supported by SAPI) doesn't appear to 
work with the free engines. Right now, paul-animated is just paul with the 
pitch raised a bit.

Not knowing how they sound and having limited imagination makes it tough....
gb

At 01:31 PM 7/27/99 -0700, T. V. Raman wrote:
>Wow-- this is great news.
>
>I'll soon volunteer to try it out.
>
>A hint on the various voices
>
>if using MS SAPI, use Mike for Paul --that is their generic
>male --they also have a generic female.
>
>voices like paul-monotone are variations on the standard
>voice --for example, paul-monotone is paul with a very flat
>pitch range --makes him sound boring --and emacspeak uses
>this consistently for things that would be set in a
>monospace typewriter font.
>
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>--raman
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