Spd.conf ruined my speech. Please help.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Now this is interesting.  I did rm -fr ./config/pulse and then rebooted 
the system to clear memory and played a webm file I have on vlc. 
Afterwards no change to speech happened at all.  So it is possible what 
configure-pulse is writing is causing problems.  This is a current 
version of archlinux specifically talking arch with all software updated 
on an x86_64 machine where all of this happened.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 01:14:01
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Spd.conf ruined my speech. Please help.
> 
> I predict this will be found not to be a fenrir problem at all but a 
> pulseaudio problem.  The reason for that is I have some pulseaudio support 
> for vlc installed on my system and had removed speech-dispatcher-git and 
> fenrir-git from my system since speech was being slowed down here too. 
> Whenever I use vlc to play an mp4 or webm file on this computer, afterwards 
> the speech slows down and sounds like darth vader until I reboot the system. 
> I could wipe out pulseaudio configuration and try playing another mp4 file to 
> see if the same degradation happens too and probably will in a few minutes 
> since now this has got me curious.  I expect an outside possibility exists 
> fenrir wrote some wrong stuff with pulseaudio-config and this should be a way 
> to find that out.
>
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 19:37:06
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Spd.conf ruined my speech. Please help.
>> 
>> maybe send me a private message to
>> chrys at linux-a11y.org
>> i lets fix this :).
>> Am 12.08.2017 um 20:37 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
>>> Now I have British-sounding speech as well as slow speech with pitch
>>> changes and punctuations spoken that I don't want. I really need to
>>> use the file I was using before.
>>> Again, help is necessary and greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> On 8/12/17, Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I ran it while trying to make fenrir work. Now everything is VERY slow
>>>> and I get weird pitch changes with caiptal letters.
>>>> 
>>>> Before, I was able to adjust the max rate in the
>>>> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf file. That file is still
>>>> there, but the rate settings no longer seem to apply. I can't function
>>>> with speech this slow. Please help.
>>>> 
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