adding english accents to espeak gst

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/speak/espeak_gst.py b/speak/espeak_gst.py
index 85cfa26..9cbe187 100644
--- a/speak/espeak_gst.py
+++ b/speak/espeak_gst.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2009, Aleksey Lim
+#
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
@@ -25,11 +27,15 @@ RATE_DEFAULT = RATE_MAX/2
 
 class AudioGrabGst(espeak.BaseAudioGrab):
     def speak(self, status, text):
+        # XXX workaround for http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1801
+        if not [i for i in text if i.isalnum()]:
+            return
+
         self.make_pipeline('espeak name=espeak ! wavenc')
         src = self.pipeline.get_by_name('espeak')
 
-        pitch = int(status.pitch) - 100
-        rate = int(status.rate) - 100
+        pitch = int(status.pitch) - 120
+        rate = int(status.rate) - 120
 
         logger.debug('pitch=%d rate=%d voice=%s text=%s' % (pitch, rate,
                 status.voice.name, text))
@@ -46,9 +52,6 @@ def voices():
 
     for i in gst.element_factory_make('espeak').props.voices:
         name, language, dialect = i
-        if name in ('en-rhotic','english_rp','english_wmids'):
-            # these voices don't produce sound
-            continue
         out.append((language, name))
 
     return out