Re: [orca-list] Double speaking with Orca

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi

This is actually an issue with speech dispatcher and ALSA. I personally use Pulseaudio, so I don't get bit by this, but what happens is when using speech dispatcher with ALSA it queues up the sound but, when the sound is supposed to be interrupted, the buffer isn't flushed immediately so the sound doesn't stop. You'll notice that when pressing ctrl to silence Orca there is a bit of a delay before speech actually goes silent, this is another manifestation of the same issue. This is actually specific to speech dispatcher and ALSA, Orca is not causing this one.

On Aug 9, 2009, at 23:46, Peter Torpey wrote:

Hi,

 

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and Orca.  I am also using the voxin speech engine with speech-dispatcher (configured in Orca).

 

This mostly works okay, but I am noticing a strange affect where Orca is sometimes speaking things twice.

 

Typically this happens if I move focus to a new item quickly before the last item is completely finished speaking.

 

As an example, if I’m in a gnome termina session and have the following on the screen:

 

First line

Second line

Third line

 

If I arrow from the top line down to the next line I will hear:

 

Second second line

 

Where the first word seems to be in a slightly lower frequency voice.

 

Is this a common problem with Orca or is there something configured incorrectly in my system?  This makes it difficult to quickly navigate through items and text.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

--Pete

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