I've found that when compressing a female voice and lowering it's pitch by about a third interval does increase its inteligibility for me.



----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Dresser <[log in to unmask]>
To:  [log in to unmask],
Date: Monday, Feb 27, 2012 06:23:40 AM
Subject: Re: OT victor reader stream

>
>
> Howard,
> 
> Apparently, Humanware received feedback indicating that some people wanted 
> to change the pitch of the voice because, for example, they had difficulty 
> hearing a female voice and wanted to make it lower.  Like you, I find it 
> hard to believe since changing the pitch also changes the quality such that 
> it decreases intelligibility.  I'm guessing that some software developer got 
> a not-so-bright idea and implemented it.  Ironically, I have a friend with a 
> hearing impairment, and he returned his Stratus precisely because it lacked 
> a real tone control.  Let's hope they get this sorted out by the next 
> update.
> 
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 04:34
> Subject: Re: OT victor reader stream
> 
> 
> >I didn't see changing tone to pitch in the release notes, but I stopped
> > reading at the Russian part.  What is the point of pitch when you can make
> > the stream talk faster at the exact same pitch?
> >