Probably not a big deal, but whatever most would want seems the best approach.
I guess its not to much more coding to add the slider I imagine.


Scott



On Mar 19, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:

Oh, and I think the speech parameter adjustments might be more intuitive with sliders instead of edit text fields. Does anyone using the app (David, Jane et al) have any opinions on that. For? Against? Don't care?

Thanks in advance,

Joe

On Mar 19, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:

Hi David,

Yes, that info should definitely go into the doc...and I'll go with the recorded voice idea.

Thanks!

Joe


On Mar 19, 2006, at 6:26 PM, David Poehlman wrote:

Thanks Joe,

Nice info. Will it go into the doc? I think if possible, your voice saying save finished or something would be cool.
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On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:33 PM, 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.







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