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8.6.1 Walkthrough: Make A Personal Reading Palette ¶

Use an unused name; reading-demo is an example. Note the active palette and whether selection is explicit or follows the standard baseline. The experiment saves a personal palette and briefly activates it, but leaves startup selection unchanged. Restore the selection policy as well as the audible result at the end.

1. Open C-e H v p. Press N, enter reading-demo, describe its purpose as “My reading experiments”, and choose acss-default as parent. Creation saves but does not activate the palette. Its standard voices are inherited.
2. Press RET to enter it. Find bolden and inspect Source, which should name acss-default. . repeats the column title/value, SPC reads the row, and P previews the voice.
3. Press e to edit bolden. Check destination and inherited source, then set Average Pitch with RET to 6, or 5 if already six. B compares opening and edited voices using one sample. Unsupported adjustments remain reported; consult Voice Adjustments if the contrast is unclear.
4. Choose Save to collection without selecting. After the save result, q returns to the voice list. Source should now name reading-demo; other inherited entries retain their providers. This is a complete local entry, not a pitch-only patch on its parent.
5. Use o to return to the manager and a to activate reading-demo. Check status and revisit content using bolden. This changes every use resolving to that entry. Explain at the source distinguishes palette settings from contextual rules.
6. Leave startup selection unchanged for this experiment. Capital U is the separate Use at Startup action, not the next step required to hear your saved palette.
7. In the palette manager, use f if you originally followed the standard baseline. Otherwise select the previous explicit palette and press a. The saved demo remains for later experiments. To remove only its bolden override, follow Inheritance, aliases and reset.

For a deliberate lasting change, U changes the palette in the saved profile. If it proposes a new profile, review its other settings too. Re-selecting an old palette does not by itself undo creating or editing that startup profile. See Choose what persists before taking this separate step.