Re: [orca-list] Orca and FF/Iceweasel - all reported problems seem to be caused by Voxin



Hi Hermann:

The perceived performance of Orca can depend a lot upon the speech synthesis engine's ability to start and interrupt speech quickly. If Voxin cannot do this well, then it's going to make Orca appear sluggish. I imagine Voxin probably should perform well, but my understanding is that Voxin is also an old set of binaries. Perhaps some changes have been made to a threading library or something that might be causing issues with Voxin's ability to function properly.

This is all conjecture, though.

Will


Hermann wrote:
Hi,
just went on testing and changed the Speech from Voxin/SD to
Espeak/Gnome-speech.
And I had to realize that the reported sluggishness on certain websites, especially the "Frankfurter Rundschau" page has almost gone.
There still is a slow responsiveness, but this is due to the meager
ressorces of my machine (1 Ghz 256 MB RAM).
So I wonder what's going on here? I thought I would do me a favor to buy this speech, and in the text mode
it acts pretty well, but it seems, that it isn't good for Orca. A test
with the Gnome-speech Viavoice driver indicated an even more
sluggeshness.
So I've have to withdraw my recommendation to use Orca with Voxin;
maybe it works on fast machines.
However the question remains: Does teh change of a speech engine effect
Orca's behavior that much? And if so, what might be the cause of this?
Hermann





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