Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-23 Thread Eric Scheibler
Samuel Thibault schrieb am 15.01.2017, 15:36 +0100: >Eric Scheibler, on Fri 13 Jan 2017 13:04:24 +0100, wrote: >> I'am not absolutely sure about that. Could you upload a new version with a >> default value of 20 or >> even 10 ms just for testing purposes? > >I have uploaded

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Eric Scheibler, on Fri 13 Jan 2017 13:04:24 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault schrieb am 12.01.2017, 3:50 +0100: > >Samuel Thibault, on Thu 12 Jan 2017 03:27:24 +0100, wrote: > >> I'm very surprised to see this 200 value, which means 200ms, while > >> studies have

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-13 Thread Eric Scheibler
Samuel Thibault schrieb am 12.01.2017, 3:50 +0100: >Samuel Thibault, on Thu 12 Jan 2017 03:27:24 +0100, wrote: >> I'm very surprised to see this 200 value, which means 200ms, while >> studies have shown that "interactivity" is usually seen bad by humans >> beyond 100ms. >>

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on Thu 12 Jan 2017 03:27:24 +0100, wrote: > I'm very surprised to see this 200 value, which means 200ms, while > studies have shown that "interactivity" is usually seen bad by humans > beyond 100ms. > > One thing we can do for Stretch is to reduce this value to something >

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Eric Scheibler, on Wed 11 Jan 2017 15:48:39 +0100, wrote: > I think, that the mute delay and overlapping belong to the same problem. It > seems, that the > espeak-ng module needs too long to clean the current speech buffer. Or in > other words: the time > between the call to cancel

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Eric Scheibler, on Wed 11 Jan 2017 15:48:39 +0100, wrote: > I thought, that it would be easy to reproduce. Never assume that something is easy to reproduce. When a bug is not fixed, it means the maintainer doesn't have it :) > >> Instead the speech output overlaps during fast cursor navigation.

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-11 Thread Eric Scheibler
Samuel Thibault schrieb am 10.01.2017, 22:18 +0100: >Eric Scheibler, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 09:05:09 +0100, wrote: >> 1. The monotonous speech output persists. > >I dug a bit and found the issue, reported upstream, and have uploaded a fixed >version. Confirmed. >> 2. The

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on Tue 10 Jan 2017 22:18:53 +0100, wrote: > Mmm, when I try espeak and espeak-ng I don't really see a difference Put another way, with version -5 containing my latest monotonous fixes, I am not aware of regressions any more compared to espeak (except the debian installer which

Bug#848158: Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Hello, Eric Scheibler, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 09:05:09 +0100, wrote: > 1. The monotonous speech output persists. I dug a bit and found the issue, reported upstream, and have uploaded a fixed version. Samuel

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Eric Scheibler, on Sun 08 Jan 2017 09:05:09 +0100, wrote: > 2. The delay after muting the screen reader is still there too (used the > shift key for brltty) Err, but is shift really supposed to shut brltty up? Without using the keycapture feature, brltty can't detect shift presses.

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-08 Thread Eric Scheibler
Samuel Thibault schrieb am 08.01.2017, 0:21 +0100: >Could you try the latest version, 1.49.0+dfsg-4? I've removed the old espeak packages entirely and installed espeak-ng, espeak-ng-data:amd64, espeak-ng-espeak and libespeak-ng1:amd64 all in version 1.49.0+dfsg-4.

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Eric Scheibler, on Mon 02 Jan 2017 22:16:36 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault schrieb am 02.01.2017, 20:56 +0100: > >Can you please test with the latest version libespeak-ng, 1.49.0+dfsg-3? > > Same problem. Could you try the latest version, 1.49.0+dfsg-4? Thanks

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-02 Thread Eric Scheibler
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault schrieb am 02.01.2017, 20:56 +0100: >Can you please test with the latest version libespeak-ng, 1.49.0+dfsg-3? Same problem. First I've updated espeak-ng, espeak-ng-data and libespeak-ng1 to version 1.49.0+dfsg-3 (unstable). Then I started

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2017-01-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Eric Scheibler, on Fri 23 Dec 2016 12:34:04 +0100, wrote: > I still can confirm these issues (Debian testing, Brltty 5.4-3 and > brltty-espeak 5.4-3). Can you please test with the latest version libespeak-ng, 1.49.0+dfsg-3? Samuel

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2016-12-23 Thread Eric Scheibler
Control: reassign 848016 brltty-espeak I still can confirm these issues (Debian testing, Brltty 5.4-3 and brltty-espeak 5.4-3). They also occur after a fresh installation of Debian testing (minimal installation). Especially the speech delay is a serious problem and should be addressed before

Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output

2016-12-13 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Package: brltty-espeak Version: 5.4-3 Severity: important Hi after an upgrade of brltty-espeak (which links to espeak-ng), the speech output is very monotonous and all speech rhythm lost, including e.g. breaks for periods at the end of a sentence. That makes it hard to listen to it for a longer