Bug#848016: brltty-espeak: very monotonous speech and noticable delays in speech output
Hello,
Eric Scheibler, on Fri 13 Jan 2017 13:04:24 +0100, wrote:
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> schrieb am 12.01.2017, 3:50 +0100:
> >Samuel Thibault, on Thu 12 Jan 2017 03:27:24 +0100, wrote:
> >> I'm very surprised to see this 200 value, which means 200ms, while
> >> studies have shown that "interactivity" is usually seen bad by humans
> >> beyond 100ms.
> >>
> >> One thing we can do for Stretch is to reduce this value to something
> >> acceptable. A low value make espeak-ng more CPU-intensive, but that
> >> shouldn't be too harmful.
> >
> >I have uploaded a -6 version with 50ms as default. I couldn't notice
> >a difference between 50ms and 20ms or 10ms, while being much less
> >CPU-intensive, and that seems coherent with the result of the studies :)
>
> Installed version 1.49.0+dfsg-6. The delay/overlapping is still there.
Ok. I believe this is another issue, which I'll talk about espeakup too.
> I'am not absolutely sure about that. Could you upload a new version with a default value of 20 or
> even 10 ms just for testing purposes?
I have uploaded packages on https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/
which use the value from the ESPEAK_NG_BUFLEN environment variable, i.e.
you run
ESPEAK_NG_BUFLEN=10 brltty -s es blabla...
to set to 10ms. I don't think it will change much the feeling you have.
More to come in a further mail.
> In general espeak-ng is much more responsive than the old espeak package
I believe that's actually the culprit of the problem, more in the coming
mail :)
> and without the overlapping it would make for a much better user
> experience.
Good :)
Samuel
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