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Bug 688172 - Orca speaks in a different pitch when coming across upper-case characters
Orca speaks in a different pitch when coming across upper-case characters
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: speech
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-12 15:10 UTC by Mike Reiser
Modified: 2015-11-06 06:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Mike Reiser 2012-11-12 15:10:48 UTC 
When reading web content or any other content with a mix of upper-case and lower-case letters, orca changes pitch and will not go back to its default pitch unless orca settings are reloaded or the no-setup command is run in a terminal.  To reproduce this, load any web page or text that contains upper-case characters.  You will notice that  Orca starts speaking in a higher pitch.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-11-12 15:24:01 UTC 
I've not been able to reproduce this bug in Fedora.

Do you have a very specific test case or string?
Comment 2 Mike Reiser 2012-11-12 15:45:58 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I've not been able to reproduce this bug in Fedora.
> 
> Do you have a very specific test case or string?

I just typedShe went to the Store in gedit and started arrowing character by character.  As soon as it came across the upper case S in the text the bug happened.  In fact its still speaking in the upper case pitch now.  This happens with both espeak and voxin under speech-dispatcher.  I hope this helps.
Comment 3 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-11-12 21:08:26 UTC 
Ok, I can reproduce it now. Thanks!
Comment 4 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-11-12 23:21:37 UTC 
I have nearly all of it fixed. But something odd is happening regarding the letter immediately next to the capital.

As a test I set my uppercase pitch to 8.6 and then arrowed around this text:

    ssSss

I would expect that either all the S's would be the same regardless of case (i.e. this bug). Or that the capital S would be in upper case, but all the lowercase s's would be in the default pitch (i.e. this bug has been fixed).

What I am finding, however, is that the pitch seems to step down, with the capital S in uppercase pitch, the s encountered next in a lower pitch (but not the default), and the s after that in the default pitch. So far, I don't see where in Orca's code this could be happening. So I need to experiment a bit in the speech-dispatcher code outside of Orca. In the meantime, this commit will get you out of permanent upper case:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=6f94c02f84f2e9b9e12d5a8fd4964344de29cd9c
Comment 5 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2015-11-06 06:36:51 UTC 
With respect to the oddity in comment 4, see https://its.freebsoft.org/its/issues/31653

Since the originally-reported issue is fixed as far as Orca is concerned, I am closing this bug.