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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Halim:

Have you experimented with PulseAudio yet?

Will

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi,
> #On Do, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:27:39 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Thanks Milan.
> >
> > 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.  
>
> The most not usable part of gnome-speech is that it can only use the
> output which comes with the synth.
> Unfortunately there are not many soundcards available which are
> multichannel capable.
> Many laptops and onboard soundcards 
> can't be used with orca+gnome-speech+other_sounds.
> This is the main problem nothing else!!!!!!!!!
>
> BR.
> Halim
>
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