[orca-list] Missing text line, and other problems

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd jsd clara co uk>]

I've just installed the Ububtu Hardy beta version and noticed some
problems:

1.  In say-all (keypress: +) in Firefox, Orca sometimes omits a line of
text.
For example, in:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/7308779.stm

The line: "The state department has not revealed which company the
contractors worked for." is omitted.  This text follows immediately
after an image caption.  This line is spoken OK when lines are read one
at a time (keypress: KP-9).

2.  When using the "espeak GNOME Speech Driver" there is no pause
between paragraphs.  I think there is not even a sentence gap.

3.  I ran speech-dispatcher and then ran Orca, and selected the Speech
System as "Speech Dispatcher".  The "Person" field became set to
"cantonese-test (zh)", even though during a previous session I had used
"Speech Dispatcher" speech system with the "english (en)" person (I had
 subsequently used the GNOME speech driver).  This is bad because the
"cantonese" voice speaks English text, but not in a natural way (it
speaks each word separately, with a fixed tone).  So it may not be
obvious what's wrong.

4.  When using "Speech Dispatcher", the default Pitch setting of 5 does
not give the normal pitch.  Instead it gives a higher pitch which
sounds wrong.  A Pitch setting of 4.5 gives the normal pitch.  With the
GNOME speech driver the Pitch setting of 5 is correct.