Re: [orca-list] ORCA improvements

[trev saunders gmail com]

Hi,

> Fix voxin problems on 64-bit Ubuntu Lucid.  We use it with
> speech-dispatcher, but the voice is garbled for some reason, only on
> 64-bit.

This sounds like an interesting one, is it reproduceble on other distros?  does cpu speed effect it?

> Fix usb-creator-gtk.  Currently any Python application that updates
> it's widgets with a thread locks up the system if Orca is running.  I
> believe this is a bug in atk-spi-registryd, and effects several other
> programs as well.

has anyone tested this with the dbus implementation of atk and at-spi-registryd?  I suspect that the 
implementations are completely different right?  I personally don't believe its worth trying to fix this in 
the corba version since that will be completely retired in a couple years, but if someone wants to attack an 
interesting threading problem they can :-).

> Figure out why Orca is not reading upper case chars in a higher pitch.
>  There's some problem in the Orca/speech-dispatcher interface.

ok, interesting I might take a look at this one, it shouldn't be too bad.  If the speech-dispatcher end seems 
to be doing the right thing, I'll let someone else have fun with the python :).

> New Features
> ------------
>
> Make evince accessible.  We need a PDF solution with Orca.

improving pdftotext would be another good option.

> Add "read to file" capability to Orca, which needs a speech-dispatcher
> upgrade to return synthesized speech rather than just play it.

wouldn't another option be to tell speechd were to write the data?  This could even do your returning audio 
with the file speechd is told to write to being a unix socket.

Trev