[Emacspeak] Re: speech rate adjustment

[Taro Kuriyama <taro.kuriyama@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm on Venture 13.0.1. The system speaking rate under Accessibility preferences seems to be unrelated -- I tried changing it, and it's set to something quite slow, well below the rate that the emacspeak speech server is using.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 1:21 AM Parham Doustdar <parham90@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

what MacOS version are you on? I'll see if I can reproduce this. Alternatively, does going to settings and adjusting the spoken text rate there change anything?

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On 7 Feb 2023, at 01:46, Taro Kuriyama <taro.kuriyama@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Thank you Parham. That variable does exist and I can set it, but it seems to have no effect. Changing the server config variables directly in the `emcaspeak/servers/mac` seems to have no effect, which is quite strange...

On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 10:33 AM Parham Doustdar <parham90@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

sorry, going off memory here, but I think there is a variable like mac-speech-rate or something like that that you can customize. Maybe try C-e V and typing in "mac-" to see what comes up?
HTH!

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> On 5 Feb 2023, at 16:23, taro.kuriyama--- via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I re-installed emacs / emacspeak on a fresh Mac and found that the speech rate config doesn't seem to work. System: MacOS Venture; emacs 28.2 / emacspeak 57.
>
> I've always had this speech rate in my emacs config: `(dtk-set-rate 350 t)`
>
> Since somehow that line isn't working, I also tried adjusting these global rate variables in `emacspeak/servers/mac`:
>
> # global speech rate
> ttsState['speechRate'] = 350
> ttsState['charFactor'] = 1.8
>
> Modifying those two lines also seems to have no effect. Any suggestions on further troubleshooting?
>
> Thanks!
> Taro
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