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

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

The missing text problem you describe seems to be another instance of:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520760

Cant help with the other issues though, sorry.

-Jon
On Fri 21/03/2008 at 23:17:53, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> 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.
>
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