[BRLTTY] issues with the espeak speech driver

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/05/30 at 00:53 -0500]

>I'm getting somewhere in my quest to integrate brltty into the sonar
>linux distro. It now speaks on the live image. 

What did you do to get that far?

>The problem is, the speech is very monotone, 

Maybe that's just a matter of getting the right options through to it. Brltty's 
speech drivers do support driver-specific parameters, so, as needed, we could 
add support for whichever eSpeak options you need.

Perhaps you could experiment with the espeak command in order to figure out 
which options achieve your goal.

How monotonic or expressive a voice is is probably a user taste issue, and 
different for everyone. Speaking for myself: When I was experimenting with 
voices for my cell phone (I'm strictly braille on my computer), I found that I 
much prefer a monotonic voice for at least two reasons. The first is that it 
doesn't impose potentially wrong emotions on whatever it's telling me. The 
second, and perhaps more important, is that I find it much better when it comes 
to accurately hearing short phrases and/or tecnical information.

>and it only speaks long enough to speak it's version. After this, it no longer 
>speaks anything else. I'm wondering if there may be an issue with the espeak 
>speech driver? 

Try logging with -ldebug,speech (and, of course, -L/path/to/logfile) to see if 
that reveals anything.

>I'm also not sure how to navigate the screen with brltty. Do the numberpad 
>keys navigate by line, character and word? I use the keypad keyboard table. 

Check out: http://brltty.com/doc/KeyBindings/kbd-keypad.html

Specifically for speech navigation, have a look at all of the bindings that are 
KPPlus+something.

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