Re: [orca-list] Orca, Gnome Speech extreme latency, stalling

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Zed:

Welcome to the list!  Can you tell us more about the hardware you are
using and the exact things you are trying to access?  We can try to
reproduce the problem here (or let you know if this is a known problem).

Thanks!

Will

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:12 -0600, Zed Burnett wrote:
> My name is Zed Burnett and I work for the New Mexico Commission for the Blind.  I am testing my new laptop, 
> which just happens to have most of the same core hardware as our new desktops, for use with Linux and Orca. 
>  My current distribution is Ubuntu 8.10.  Under both eSpeak and the Cepstral David synthesizers there is 
> such extreme latency and stalling that it is difficult to even know what is being properly read or not.  
> There does not seem to be anything else wrong with this setup.
>
> I realize this is not exactly a support forum.  The problem is worst using the Cepstral voice (David 5.1), 
> and they don't seem interested in supporting their claims of compatability.  I would like to provide 
> whatever logs, configuration files or anything else you may need so that we can find out if there is really 
> a bug here of if it's just kinked drivers or whatever.  I'm a hardware and OS guy, but my programming 
> knowledge is on the slim side of slim.  Regardless, I would be happy to help out in whatever way I can 
> towards resolving these issues.
>
> After years of getting slammed with the high price of Microsoft and proprietary assistive technology, I 
> would also love to help provide practical alternatives for some of my consumers, and take a little of that 
> pressure off our budget (and the taxpayers that provide it).  Putting additional personal time toward this 
> and learning a bit more troubleshooting, debugging, programming is not out of the question, for me.
>
>
>
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