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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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