4.1.5 and 4.1.6 Altering EDDI Voice Pitch and Tone

[JSSelene]

I recently upgraded to 4.1.6 and found that it changed somewhat the pitch of the TTS voice I have been using for many years. I am using Amy IVONA and after updating to 4.1.6 the pitch of the voice is a bit more hollow or with a bit of an echo. I do not have any distortion (I have never run that) on the EDDI voice in the Text-to-Speech panel. I downgraded to 4.1.5 and found the same issue, but when I downgraded to 4.1.4 the issue disappeared.

I utilize some custom commands with TTS and those remain in the regular Amy IVONA voice no matter the version of EDDI that I run; it is only the text running through EDDI that has a strange tenor to it that is new in 4.1.5 and 4.1.6. Anyone else experienced this or have solutions for a fix? I have tried changing some of the settings in the Text-to-Speech panel of EDDI, but none of the changes I made while running 4.1.5 or 4.1.6 were able to return the voice to the original tone that still comes through the custom commands I wrote. Only downgrading to 4.1.4 returned the voice to normal.

[Tkael]

FYI I've been working on retuning this for the next release. I'm afraid it's been a slow, very iterative process but I think it's improving.

[themrparis]

Just noticed this too, although I found that when testing to identify what was causing the change when configuring EDDI and within the Text-to-Speech changing the Ship for testing voice back to Adder or Sidewinder removes the echo/distortion. I've been using my Mandalay a fair bit and couldn't understand why EDDI had developed an Echo. Glad I know it's not me going mad.

[emyrsmorgan]

Go into Edddie then Text to Speech and slide the Level of voice processing slider all to the left. That fixes the voice change works for 4.1.8 atleast