Re: [orca-list] punctuation pronunciation and pauses

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> I think it would be nice if a core Orca developer or anyone who knows orca code very well would be able to 
> check and correct this.

I believe this took place in 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520494#c33.  If there's 
something wrong, please let me know.

By the way, I need to repeat that THE CURRENT SPEECH DISPATCHER 
IMPLEMENTATION IN ORCA IS NOT SUPPORTED.  If you have problems with 
speech output, please first use the currently supported solution, 
gnome-speech.

In any case...

I've explained that the design choice made early on in Orca was to solve 
the 'missing synth feature' problem at the Orca level.  I've also 
admitted this was not the optimal solution and that we should work to 
better understand this problem from the end user point of view.  If I 
have not said it clearly, let me state it now: I'm open to discussing 
viable working solutions that offer a clear improvement, which address 
the user requirements, and which run on all the platforms that Orca runs on.

Let me also state that I'm really reaching the end of my patience on 
this.  I'm not soliciting feedback on the current design choice, but 
that's what people seem to be perseverating on.  The design choice was 
in there yesterday and it's in there today.  Without moving forward, 
it's going to be there tomorrow.  If it's there tomorrow, the same 
person that declared it was not right yesterday and today will discover 
that it's still there tomorrow and won't hesitate to proudly declare it 
again.  The critique will also be identical BECAUSE NOTHING CHANGED. 
That gets us absolutely no closer to solving the problem.

We have a set of user requirements, and I have questions for the 
Brailcom team trying to understand their exact proposal.  I'm hoping for 
answers.

Will