Re: [orca-list] Orca and Cepstral

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Will,

I use Cepstral Callie with gnome-speech all the time with no problems.

dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown com>
Cc: "Orca E-mail List" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Cepstral


> Do you experience the same issues when using the gnome-speech driver for
> Cepstral?  I'm the guilty person responsible for the gnome-speech driver
> for Cepstral, so it's very likely I could have screwed something up when
> writing it.
>
> Will
>
> Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > That's too bad too.  I really like their voices and would love to
> > listen to Cepstral Callie all day long while running Orca but she
> > falters too much.  Like I say, if I could get them to work with ALSA
> > and perhaps a direct speech dispatcher module, maybe things would be
> > better for her.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:19:00AM -0600, John Greer wrote:
> > > Yep Cepstral voices do that too on Windows.  Most likely it is just the 
> > > way
> > > Cepstral voices are.  I have never seen them be responsive enough for
> > > screen reader use.
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> > > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown com>
> > > To: "Orca E-mail List" <orca-list gnome org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:22 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Cepstral
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> > > > I've used it some with speech dispatcher but notice a lot of
> > > > hesitation and even momentary drop-outs both in Orca and in speeckup
> > > > with speechd-up.  I have a fast enough machine with plenty memory (2
> > > > GB) but still the sluggishness.  Anything I can look for to make
> > > > Cepstral perform better? I suppose it's got to do with using the
> > > > generic module.  Too bad I can't come up with a direct module for
> > > > Cepstral like espeak.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:42:27PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > > > > Hi. Cepstral voices will work with ORca.  If you run Debian or Ubuntu,
> > > > > you just buy and install a voice,
> > > > > apt-get install gnome-speech-swift, switch ORca to use your new voice,
> > > > > and enjoy.
> > > > > Cepstral Swift is supported with speech-dispatcher using the generic
> > > > > module.  You can get a swift-generic.conf file from:
> > > > > http://hittsjunk.net/swift-generic.conf
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hope this helps.
> > > > >          Kenny
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:34:14PM -0900, Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
> > > > > > Hello, all,
> > > > > > Can anyone give me some pointers on (a) whether Cepstral voices work
> > > > > > with Orca, and
> > > > > > (b) how to do it?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Terrence
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