Re: [orca-list] Orca, speech-dispatcher and eSpeak stability

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Except that Voxin is 32-bit only and further, depends on an outdated  
version of glibc that, while it works now, may not continue to do so.  
While Voxin 0.2 can be easily installed on 64-bit systems, it's still  
32-bit only and takes a bit of effort to get working on 64-bit. Also,  
there are bugs using Voxin with orca and speech-dispatcher, certain  
punctuation marks do not get spoken or are given odd names. I've not  
been able to figure out if this bug lies in speech dispatcher or orca,  
since Orca doesn't exhibit this behavior with espeak but sd/voxin only  
exhibits this behavior with orca and nothing else. Remember, pulse  
output is a must, he mentioned several times that straight ALSA is not  
acceptable, so this means sd must be used. Trying to wrap the Voxin  
gnome-speech driver i padsp leads to a very unstable system indeed,  
it's the most unstable of all the gnome-speech drivers when used this  
way with Orca.
As for dectalk, can it even be purchased anymore?



On Mar 7, 2009, at 04:10, Hermann wrote:

> On 06.03.2009 at 22:14:37 Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I reported the bug with speech-dispatcher and eSpeak on the
> > speech-dispatcher list. It appears to be some kind of bug with alsa  
> > or
> > something, even though I am running pulseaudio here and am having the
> > same problem. I received a reply on that list that suggested I either
> > have speech-dispatcher output via OSS or use gnome-speech. I liked
> > either of these options less than I liked having to create a hotkey  
> > to
> > a small script that will restart speech-dispatcher and Orca, so the
> > latter is what I did. Hopefully this bug will be fixed very soon.
>
> It last since one year, so I am not that optimistic.
>
> > I
> > get tired of losing speech, even though I can just press a key
> > combination to restart it. And gnome-speech isn't the best option for
> > me either, since its eSpeak driver is now bypassing pulseaudio ...
>
> A third solution is to spend a few bugs, stimulate our economy and buy
> either Voxin or Dectalk. I've bought Voxin, and now I'm able to use SD
> via Alsa output.
> Hermann
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