Re: [orca-list] Punctuation, capital letters, exchange of characters and strings, generally error in the design of Orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:27:39AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> So...I have a dilemma.  The imperfect gnome-speech-based solution in 
> Orca exists and generally works.  The emergence of PulseAudio is also 
> helping to address one of the major issues (audio device contention). 
> While not perfect, the current solution provides emulation for missing 
> TTS features in a very expedient and controllable means to give users 
> what they want *today*.  We can also quickly make adjustments to 
> gnome-speech to provide support for features enabled by the speech 
> engine (e.g., verbalized punctuation, capitalization, etc.) and we can 
> quickly adjust Orca to pass things on to the speech engine rather than 
> emulate them at the Orca layer.  In addition, all of this is 
> encapsulated in GNOME, making it easy to manage from the release and 
> packaging standpoints.

If that be the case, then it sounds like gnome-speech would be the
most appropriate speech engine to use.  Well then, I do have a
possible bug to report.  At least on my system, it breaks up a lot.
It's worst when other disk activity is going on.  I do not get this
with speech dispatcher.  At the present time given differences in how
punctuation and capitalization are handled, I believe gnome-speech
better meets my needs.  I don't know if it has to do with buffer sizes
or not but the crackling or breaking up of speech is the main thing
keeping me away from using gnome-speech all the time.

Also, Cepstral swift seems to work better under gnome-speech than with
speech dispatcher.  So there's the differences and challenges in
choosing the optimum solution.

I think gnome-speech could be lots better if it could be configured by
a user like speech dispatcher such things as specific parameters for
particular synthesizers.
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