Re: [orca-list] is this an orca bug? changing speech-dispatcher's support for espeak's varients doesn't enable the varients to show up

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:37:10AM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> Steps to reproduce. Make sure you are running speech dispatcher 0.8.5.
> Then enable espeak's varient support by editing
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf or espeak-ng.conf, whichever
> you're using. Change " espeak-list-voice-varients" from 0 to 1, then
> save and close. Then kill speech-dispatcher with killall
> speech-dispatcher. What should happen is speech-dispatcher will restart
> and orca will have several thousand more voices to choose from. That
> doesn't seem to happen.

Orca or maybe Speech Dispatcher's own python bindings may be caching the 
voice list. When stopping speech-dispatcher, did you check to make sure all 
the synth module processes were also killed?

> I've already restarted orca to see if that might
> fix the problem.

Did it?

> It's possible speech-dispatcher now has proper varient
> support and orca just needs to be updated to support it, I'm not sure.

Nothing has changed in Speech Dispatcher regarding variants in espeak, not 
since the functionality was introduced a couple of versions ago.

Luke