Re: [orca-list] one major question about speach still can't be answered.

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Halim Sahin wrote:
> BTW. Whats the disadvantage of the generic sd-modules to its  module e.
> G. ibmtts??

Hello Halim,

The generic module invokes the synthesizer binary for each synthesized
text.  For example for espeak, the espeak command must be started, the
arguments passed through a command line, the wave must be written to a
temporary file and then played.  This is all quite time consuming, so
the performance of the generic module is much worse than it could be if
there was a dedicated module communicating directly with synthesizer's
library.  But the advantage is that writing a generic module for a new
synth is incredibly simple.

In case of espeak, the final performace is not that bad, because espeak
is amazingly fast, but it would be even better with a dedicated module.

We hope that a dedicated espeak module will be written soon.  I am
really curious to see how responsive it would be.

Best regards, Tomas