Re: [orca-list] punctuation pronunciation and pauses

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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This is incourging news indeed; thanks.  Yeah, I have an SBlive card
plus I do have a separate internal sound card if I want to go that
way.  All I need do now is figure out how to get gnome-speech back:).
I guess when I set things up in the first place, I must have specified
something because I don't have a gnome-speak option even available in
my voice settings.  Maybe I need to get the separate modules or
something.  I'll have to take a look at the wiki pages for
gnome-speech; hopefully that should get me going there.  I'm looking
forward to hearing Cepstral Callie speak nice and smooth to me without
dropping out or hanging like the speech dispatcher generic driver
seems to do.  Also I compile my espeak from source and build my own
slackware packages so I always do it with portaudio 19.

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:29:46PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
> Technically, gnome-speech doesn't know anything about audio output.  It just tells the TTS engine
> to speak something and lets the engine do it however it wants.  What this means for Linux users is all
> gnome-speech drivers except espeak use OSS.  Without a multichannel sound card, using gnome-speech drivers 
> means no
> other audio output.  Even espeak can output to OSS instead of ALSA if it is built against portaudio 18.
> Tricks like using the aoss wrapper can work with some sound cars to get gnome-speech drivers to share the 
> sound card, but it doesn't work with all cards.
> On my new box that uses the hda-intel driver, aoss doesn't work for swift.  Padsp does work, but I have 
> problems
> with pulseaudio and gxine.  Because I use gxine to tune local tv, forcing everything to use ALSA is a 
> requirement.  I'm lucky because the Debian espeak package
> uses portaudio 19.  That lets me use the gnome-speech espeak driver.  I will have to use speech-dispatcher 
> to get access to any other synth on the system.
> If your box has a multichannel card like a sblive, the gnome-speech deiver for Cepstral works really well.
>
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:55:13PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I'm a recent commer to this whole situation with Orca and was lead to
> > believe by others that Speech Dispatcher was supposedly the way of the
> > future and gnome-speech was not going forward.  Maybe I mis-understood
> > or something.  But one thing I did hear was that gnome-speech was
> > OSS.  What if we want to use ALSA and want to take advantage of ALSA's
> > multi chanel support? I thought OSS was obsolete now since the 2.6
> > kernel uses ALSA by default now.  I'm considering getting gnome-speech
> > going to see if it works better with Cepstral but if it is restricted
> > to OSS and single chanel operation, then I'm not interested.
> >
> > If gnome-speech is the official line and speech dispatcher is *NOT*
> > "supported", then why doesn't gnome-speech get up to the more current
> > ALSA implementation?  What synths does gnome-speech work with? I'm
> > using espeak currently.
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