Re: [orca-list] Potential conflict between Orca and emacspeak with hardware synth

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

No hardware devices are supported by gnome-speech right now, so the 
suspects might be the emacspeak driver and/or speech dispatcher.

Will

Mike Gorse wrote:
> For what it's worth, _something_ does probe the serial port when the 
> user enters the preferences dialog.  I have a Speak-out connected to the 
> serial port on my desktop, and it starts reading out commands intended 
> for a DEC-talk.  So presumably it is gnome-speech that is doing this.
>
> -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Willie Walker wrote:
>
> > Hi David:
> >
> > Orca doesn't probe the serial ports at all.  Instead, it relies upon the
> > selected speech system (gnome-speech, emacspeak, speech dispatcher) to
> > perform audio/driver support on Orca's behalf.
> >
> > If you take emacspeak out of the equation, and choose gnome-speech with
> > eSpeak for Orca, do you still experience the hang?  If so, it might be
> > instability in Gutsy that's getting you.
> >
> > Will