[BRLTTY] Some more things for v4.4
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Wed May 30 12:43:59 EDT 2012
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
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