Re: Using espeak

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

On Nov 1, 2006, at 7:30 AM, Willie Walker wrote:

> Do you have a pointer to the thread?  I'd like to take a look.

Sure. The relevant bit starts at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome- 
accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00097.html.


I've started trying to make this work--that is, using gnome-speech- 
>speech-dispatcher->espeak. This is with the latest espeak from  
ubuntu edgie and gnome-speech/orca from CVS (which, interestingly  
enough, both worked right out of the box this time. Not sure what  
happened when I tried a few months ago and gave up because test- 
speech wasn't seeing the speech-dispatcher drivers and eventually  
orca started tracebacking, but such is technology I suppose. :)

In any case, the latest speech-dispatcher-espeak configuration seems  
to be out-of-date with regards to the volume range in espeak, so  
anyone using this method will need to modify the volume multiplier  
such that espeak doesn't start nearly silent. It also seems that  
stopping speech happens shortly after new speech starts, because  
arrowing through menus quickly causes speech overlap. It catches up  
rather quickly so isn't too difficult to deal with, but a bit off- 
putting nonetheless.

Anyhow, once I find volume configuration values that work, I'll see  
about sending along an updated config to the speech-dispatcher folks.  
With the exception of the previously-described issue, though, it  
seems to work rather nicely otherwise.