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

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 07.03.2009 at 10:19:24 Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com> wrote:

> Except that Voxin is 32-bit only and further, depends on an outdated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.

But the development of Voxin seems to go on. So perhaps there will be a
solution.

> 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. 

It's neither nor, I guess. I think it is Voxin, and therefore we should
contact the Voxin team.

> Remember, pulse
> output is a must, he mentioned several times that straight ALSA is not
> acceptable, so this means sd must be used. 

What abou those that don't use Ubuntu? They easily can use Alsa, and I
do so under GRML.
[...]
> As for dectalk, can it even be purchased anymore?
I don't know, but I remember having heard about it. Perhaps someone from
the US can answer this.
Hermann