Re: [orca-list] Potential conflict between Orca and emacspeak with hardware synth

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

I also get the same behavior as Mike.  My DecTalk Express receives a reset 
string for it, followed by a reset string for the DecTalk MultiVoice. When 
this occurs, I have gnome-speech as the speech server and eSpeak as the 
synthesizer. Emacspeak is not running at the time.  So, could it be that, 
since the emacspeak speech server is one of my available speech servers, 
although not currently in use, that Orca is in some way having the emacspeak 
server test its available resources when the Orca Preferences dialog is 
launched? Could this also be happening when moving from a non-AT-SPI 
application back to those where Orca is functional? Just thoughts...

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Mike Gorse" <mgorse mgorse dhs org>
Cc: "David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>; <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Potential conflict between Orca and emacspeak with 
hardware synth


> No hardware devices are supported by gnome-speech right now, so the 
> suspects might be the emacspeak driver and/or speech dispatcher.
>
> Will
>
> Mike Gorse wrote:
> > For what it's worth, _something_ does probe the serial port when the user 
> > enters the preferences dialog.  I have a Speak-out connected to the 
> > serial port on my desktop, and it starts reading out commands intended 
> > for a DEC-talk.  So presumably it is gnome-speech that is doing this.
> >
> > -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Willie Walker wrote:
> >
> > > Hi David:
> > >
> > > Orca doesn't probe the serial ports at all.  Instead, it relies upon the
> > > selected speech system (gnome-speech, emacspeak, speech dispatcher) to
> > > perform audio/driver support on Orca's behalf.
> > >
> > > If you take emacspeak out of the equation, and choose gnome-speech with
> > > eSpeak for Orca, do you still experience the hang?  If so, it might be
> > > instability in Gutsy that's getting you.
> > >
> > > Will