Re: [orca-list] Orca Document reading function only works partially

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Gilles:

I think that the call to the 'say' method of a GNOME Speech speaker 
should complete before any speech progress events are generated for the 
text passed to the 'say' method.  The reason being is that 'say' is an 
asynchronous method that returns an id.  This id is then used in speech 
progress events.  As such, getting an event containing an unknown id 
doesn't seem right to me.  Maybe something (e.g., the GNOME speech 
driver for eSpeak?) should prevent callbacks from being called until the 
application gets the id?

Thanks!

Will

Gilles Casse wrote:
> Will, all,
>
> A patch for reading a whole page including blank lines will be hopefully
> proposed soon to Jonathan Duddington. 
>
> I would have a question regarding orca / gnome-speech.
>
> Using Orca 2.18.0, when a blank line is said via a call to gnome-speech
> (espeak_synthesis_driver_say), eSpeak now correctly calls twice the
> gnome speech callback: speech_started, then speech_ended. 
>
> There is still a problem though: it seems that if eSpeak runs the
> speech_ended call whereas espeak_synthesis_driver_say has not yet
> returned, then orca does not supply the following line to gnome-speech. 
>
> If the speech_ended call is delayed (here 50 ms works), orca supplies
> the next line to gnome-speech. 
> I would prefer to avoid this workaround.
>
> Have you info about this issue ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gilles
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