Re: [orca-list] orca and synthesiser responsiveness question

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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My synthesizer experience is somewhat limitted in Orca but I regularly
use espeak both with gnome-speech and speech-dispatcher interfaces.
I've also used the Cepstral voices which are often called swift and
the module for it is called swift; that is most easily implemented
with gnome-speech and I have used it with speech dispatcher too but
gnome-speech seems to yield a better responsiveness than speech
dispatcher for the Cepstral voices.  I love the voice quality of
cepstral voices but espeak is much much more responsive to me in
comparison.  So I usually stick to espeak because of the
responsiveness.  I can use espeak with gnome-speech or speech
dispatcher; punctuation control is better with gnome speech but speech
dispatcher has other advantages over gnome speech too.

I own a copy of Dectalk but have never tried it with Orca.  I used it
some with Speak a while back and ran it through speech dispatcher's
generic module.  I would probably use the generic speech dispatcher
module with Orca if I want to try DecTalk.  I found the generic module
of speech dispatcher to be particularly sluggish with Orca when I
tried to use Cepstral with speech dispatcher.

HTH.

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:32:04AM +0530, Aruni Sharma wrote:
> Hello listers, so far my experience has been that Espeak rates
> definitely the best interms of responsiveness with orca. I have not
> used decTalk speech software though. could anybody share his/her
> experiences with different speech synths including loquendo, decTalk,
> swift cepstral etc.
> Thanks and regards,
> Aruni.
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