Spd.conf ruined my speech. Please help.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I'm on Ubuntu. I originally sped up my speech by modifying the file
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf.
I suspect that spd-conf created another espeak.conf file somewhere and
that one is now the default. But it also set pulseaudio as the
default, so I haven't ruled that out as the problem.

On 8/13/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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