Re: [orca-list] Espeak variants was Re: New Linux user, needing higher quality speech

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
Sounds like a good solution
Thanks
Kendell clark


Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:26:53PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
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> > hi Just a suggestion. If this is added, would it be feasible to
> > simply add a second combo box to orca's preferences dialog,
> > available only to espeak users, labeled something like varient?
>
> You could, but that introduces a special case into Orca's code, and
> special cases are something that every coder tries to avoid, well I
> know I try to at least. If more speech synthesizers had something
> similar, that could be done, but adding a special case for one
> synthesizer is likely something that is not desireable.
>
> I think the cleanest solution is to extend Speech Dispatcher to
> allow clients to query for voice variants, and then Orca would only
> present them to the user if the currently selected synthesizer
> makes such information available. That way there would be no
> special casing required, and if the synthesizer doesn't provide
> variants or whatever its called, then Orca just grays out the combo
> box.
>
> Luke
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