[BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 30 May 2012, Sebastian Humenda wrote:

> Hello Nicolas,
> 
> Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> schrieb am 30.05.2012,  3:35 -0400:
> >On Wed, 30 May 2012, Eric Scheibler wrote:
> >> 1. Announcing of capitals still doesn't work if I set the "raise
> >> pitch" method. Letters are spoken with a higher pitch but also are doubled.
> >> If I type "jJ" on the command line I get "jJJ" and sometimes also "jJJJJ".
> >> As far as I could test this happens with all letters. With the "say cap"
> >> option all is ok.
> >
> >What is the speech driver you use?  I've observed the same thing with 
> >the eSpeak driver as changing the pitch somehow appears to take CPU time 
> >away from the keyboard event processing, and my presumption is that the 
> >key release events are delayed long enough for the auto-repeat action to 
> >kick in.
> Just to confirm it: Doubled letters do cure when using eSpeak and "raise pitch"
> so that I switched to "say cap".
> 
> Is this something which could be discussed with the eSpeak developer(s)?

No, that's not an eSpeak problem.  Let's call this a flaw in the Espeak 
driver for BRLTTY that is being exposed by the recent "raise pitch" 
feature.  I might look at fixing it when I get back home next week.  
The fix would be too invasive for the 4.4 release at this point though.


Nicolas