Should be OK with plain text and rich text both. I just pasted in the
Braille Monitor you sent as rich text.
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
I meant to ask earlier. Will this program only handle plain text
files?
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi Dave,
I didn't bother, in the current release, to make any changes to
numbers returned for the speech settings (i.e. rounding, etc.).
It's something I'll take care of in the near future. Some of the
numbers are large but you probably only want to listen to the
number before the decimal point. Following is some information on
each of the settings and typical ranges for each.
Pitch Rate: Use is self-explanatory. Typical range is 150 - 180.
Pitch Base is just what most refer to as just pitch - this is the
pitch setting you were asking for. We're using it to set the base
frequency of the voice. Typical range is 30 - 65.
Pitch Modulation: is a speech adjustment not often included but a
handy one to have. This is a one setting you might or might not
want to play around with - but you can really season a particular
voice to your own taste with this one. This setting changes the
modulation depth i.e. "the actual pitch of generated speech might
vary from the base pitch up or down as much as the modulation
depth. Typical range is 0 - 50.
Volume: Use is self-explanatory. 1 is the highest and default
setting. Typical range is 0.0 - 1.0. To lower the volume halfway,
for instance, you might set this to .5.
Ah, I'm guessing your System Beep is also set to Purr. I can
change the "file finished" alert sound to a distinctive sound
built into the app.
Yes, seems that VO will necessarily interrupt the speech if
playing (but it won't, of course, interrupt rendering to audio
file) - don't think there is a workaround for that one.
I hope the info helps!
Thanks,
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 7:52 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi Joe,
This is nice, simple and clean but a couple of things at least
need clarification.
The volume is listed as 1, I don't know what base pitch is (long
number) and what is pitch modulation which is set at 100.
I have a request if you can fill it. I'd either like to be abble
to set my finished signal or have it bbe something than purr
since for me at least, that seems to be the one I get when I've
done something rong so to speak.
Also an observation. Like other apps, vo interrupts play from
the window.
Thanks for a great interface though, it solves an issue of mine.
