Question with punctuation pitch change

[Tomas Cerha]

On 07 Oct, Hammer Attila <hammera at pickup.hu> wrote:
>> When I using Speech-dispatcher with espeak or espeak-generic module
>> and Speech-dispatcher would like say a punctuation character, the
>> pitch is always changed a lower value, and I hear a little echo when
>> the punctuation character is spokened.
> 
>> How can I disable this feature with Speech-dispatcher? This is
>> possible?

No.

Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> Is it only the echo which is objectionable, or both the echo and the
> change in tone (it's not actually a change in pitch)?

Espeak doesn't change pitch, but Orca does, so the espeak's indication
is a little redundant in this case.  It might be a good idea to allow
switching it off.

> If this feature is generally unpopular, then I can remove it.  It some
> people find it useful then I can make it optional, either with:
> 
> 1.  A option in the voice file.
> or
> 2.  An option in the eSpeak configuration file (espeak-data/config).
> or
> 3.  An parameter which can be changed using the libespeak API, which
> Speech Dispatcher could use.

I'd prefer 2. since it should be set once for all espeak voices and it
seems too specific to be controlled by Speech Dispatcher.

Also note, that the change suggested in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440114 would work around this
problem, since it would verbalize punctuation character names within
Orca and send them to the speech system as ordinary text.

Best regards

Tomas