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

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.

I use padsp to get the Cepstral Swift gnome-speech driver to output with pulseaudio instead of OSS.
You would ed the file for the speech driver in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers.  I think there are more detailed 
instructions
for doing this with aoss on live.gnome.org/Orca.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:48:07PM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hello Will,
> On Do, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:43:42 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Halim:
> >
> > Have you experimented with PulseAudio yet?
> Yes, but only with speech-dispatcher.
>
> Can you please tell me howto use pulseaudio with viavoice under gnome-speech?
> Halim
>
>
>
>
> > 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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