NVDA 2024.1 beta 2 Portable not speaking capitals with eSpeak

[andrew-l-d]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a portable copy of NVDA 2024.1 beta 2.
2. Set eSpeak as the synthesizer.
3. In any document, webpage, email or Windows Explorer, navigate to an uppercase character with left or right arrow.

   Actual behavior:

   New Issue · nvaccess/nvda — Mozilla Firefox New Issue · nvaccess/nvda document main landmark Write property page Comment edit multi line blank alt+tab NVDA 2024.1beta2 User Guide - Google Chrome row 1 column 2 NVDA 2024.1beta2 User Guide document heading level 1 NVDA 2024.1beta2 User Guide ctrl+right arrow Guide ctrl+right arrow out of heading heading level 2 Table ctrl+right arrow of ctrl+right arrow Contents right arrow o Oscar left arrow C Charlie left arrow space

right arrow C Charlie right arrow o Oscar left arrow C Charlie left arrow space

ctrl+left arrow Table right arrow a Alfa left arrow T Tango left arrow out of he The Speech Viewer does not accurately reflect the issue. It is showing the letter when NVDA makes the error sound. If navigating to a word with - say - ctrl+right arrow NVDA speaks the word correctly. If using left arrow to go to the uppercase letter, the error sound occurs.Similarly, if navigating to a word with right arrow the error sound occurs. Note that the issue only occurs with the eSpeak synthetizer. The issue occurs regardless of which option for presenting uppercase characters is selected.

Expected behavior:

When navigating to an uppercase character with right or left arrow keys, the character will be presented correctly.

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

See espeak-no-speak-caps.txt

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Portable

NVDA version:

NVDA 2024.1 beta 2

Windows version:

10

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

Outlook, Notepad++, Notetab Pro, Chrome, Firefox.

Other information about your system:

Should be up to date

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

I am fairly certain the issue was present with 2024.1 beta 1, also running as portable. I have not encountered the issue with any prior version.

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

Yes

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

Yes espeak-no-speak-caps.txt espeak-no-speak-caps.txt

[lukaszgo1]

@andrew-l-d I cannot reproduce this. What is your eSpeak pitch set to? Also how you've set 'Capital pitch change percentage' in the settings panel?

[hwf1324]

I can't reproduce it in Windows 10/11 either, what language/voice variant are you using?

[andrew-l-d]

Thanks both for the feedback. The one setting I did not check! Pitch change for capitals is set at 30 and because eSpeak ignores it I left it there. But I dropped the eSpeak pitch to 0 and that is what caused the problem. I will therefore close the issue.

[XLTechie]

@andrew-l-d Why do you say that ESpeak ignores the caps pitch setting? Or have I misunderstood you? It does not ignore it on my system.

[andrew-l-d]

Luke, you are correct. With pitch change set to 50 it is obvious. When set to 30 with the Male 7 variant set to pitch 20 and with my aging ears it is not obvious.

Andrew

[XLTechie]

Ah okay. :)