Re: [orca-list] Cepstral stability (was Re: latest orca)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Paul:

> Disabling software sound mixing in the sounds preferences dialogue 
> solved the problem of swift cutting out (although it meant I couldn't 
> listen to music with Totam).  The swift v5 voice works perfectly with 
> ESD disabled in Ubuntu Hardy.

Thanks for this extra info.  Definitely helps people understand where 
the problem lies.

> How do you find out what version of gnome-speech you're running?

If you didn't install it from sources and haven't changed what the base 
OS gave you, just letting us know gnome-about --version is probably 
sufficient.  If you've installed gnome-speech from other places, then 
you might need to search for it in synaptic (assuming you are on Ubuntu).

Will

> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Chris Gilland Desktop" <chrisgilland carolina rr com>
> Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:55 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Cepstral stability (was Re: latest orca)
>
>
> > Hey All:
> >
> > Just a quick note...
> >
> > I'm seeing various levels of success with Cepstral Swift.  Some people 
> > report its OK, others say it doesn't work so well.  This leads me to 
> > believe it may be an OS-specific thing related to audio.  It may also 
> > be just not having correctly installed and configured Swift itself.
> >
> > In order to help with these problems, it would be great if people 
> > could try the "Troubleshooting" steps at 
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech. When reporting the results of 
> > following these steps, it would also be very helpful if you reported:
> >
> > 1) Which OS distribution and version you are using
> > 2) Which version of gnome-speech you are using
> > 3) Which version of Cepstral you are using
> > 4) The results of using the engine's executable used to test the 
> > engine itself (e.g., Swift's 'swift' executable)
> > 5) The results of using test-speech to determine if the engine shows 
> > up and works with gnome-speech
> > 6) The version of Orca you are using
> >
> > This kind of information will be very useful.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Chris Gilland Desktop wrote:
> > > Yeah, I kind a noticed this.  Not only is it not stable, I can't even 
> > > get the bloody thing to show up in the list of synths under 
> > > gnome-speech.
> > >
> > > I hear you can get it to work with Speech Dispatcher, but I dono how 
> > > to do it.
> > >
> > > Chris.
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris.
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "mattias" <mj mjw se>
> > > To: <orca-list gnome org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:49 AM
> > > Subject: [orca-list] latest orca
> > >
> > >
> > > > i must say
> > > > the latest orca with cepstral is not stable
> > > > i can't say more about this
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