[Kde-accessibility] [Announce] Revisions to KDE Text-to-Speech System (KTTS)

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Monday 15 November 2004 08:24 am, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Paul:
>
> When I say "speeding up" I am talking about the stretch parameter, i.e.
> the speech rate in words-per-minute, not performance issues.  In order
> for a TTS engine to be used effectively by screenreaders it must support
> faster-than-natural speech.

It might be possible to compensate by playing back at a faster rate on the 
audio side.  Will look into it.

The Stretch parameter is still supported with non-MultiSyn voices.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php