Re: [orca-list] Speech dispatcher vs. gnome speech

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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My chief concern right now seems to be with Capital letters.  It seems
that Orca can raise the pitch appropriately when selecting Uppercase
voice parameters in the Orca configuration panel but when reviewing
letter by letter in flat review or when arrowing around in something
like a text editor, capital letters keep being spoken "Capital" before
each letter and the pitch does not increase.  I find this to be very
annoying.  I need to review the configuration in speech dispatcher
configs but I don't think I saw pitch as an available choice for
espeak.  Espeak can speak higher pitch letters because gnome-speech
does it all the time.

One other big flaw for me is when using the speech dispatcher
interface and while using flat review in any of the Mozilla products,
I can only hear "Symbol 0" instead of the character under the flat
review cursor.  This happens all the time for me with the speech
dispatcher interface but not with gnome-speech.

These are the two biggies to me and frankly, show stoppers against
migrating to speech dispatcher yet.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:57:01AM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:55:46AM EST, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > As an ArchLinux user, I'm currently using Gnome 2.28 with gnome speech
> > and espeak.  I'd just like to say, for the record, that I find this
> > solution quite sufficient for my needs.  Speech-dispatcher has always
> > seemed to be an extra layer of complexity for me, one which is unneeded.  
> > There may be hidden advantages to it which I'm unaware of.  I'd be
> > curious to hear someone else's take on this.
>
> Yes, speech-dispatcher can get quite complex, when you have to deal with the various configuration options 
> it offers, particularly per synthesizer. This is why we need to have things set up to be as well configured 
> for as many use cases as possible.
>
> Added to that, I'd say that some of the issues users are seeing are likely a combination of how the orca 
> speech-dispatcher code is written, and speech-dispatcher itself. I have not delved into the orca 
> speech-dispatcher code, however if you find an issue that is clearly speech-dispatcher related, please let 
> me know, and I'll do what I can to fix it, at least in the latest development code. If you have a fix, even 
> better, please send it to me.
>
> Luke
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