Spd.conf ruined my speech. Please help.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I got rid of all but my original espeak.conf. Speech still has not
reverted to the way it was. Weirdly, the only thing that has changed
is that the pitch of capitalized words is raised by about an octave

On 8/13/17, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> If you have locate installed and ran updatedb recently you can type
> locate espeak.conf and find all locations for that file.  The package
> may be called mlocate or locate and typing which locate will tell you if
> the locate package or mlocate package is installed.
>
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:07:52
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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