Re: [orca-list] Speech Dispatcher and OpenTTS

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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I just learned that the Open TTS team wants to start a freeze by the
end of the week so a stable public release can be put out.  Given
this, how soon can the patch supplied with bug #618927 be applied to
git?  Does anyone else have to test from the patch first? I don't know
how many people are actually testing latest orca and opentts at the
same time.  This could make for complex and risky testing given
multiple places where speech could be lost.  Fortunately for me, I
never lost any speech with my testing thus far.  Probably the only
trick is to bring up Orca and switch speech synth systems on the fly
and keep speech going.  What I ended up doing was to save off my .orca
directory and then started up Orca from anew; that allowed Orca to
pre-initialize itself and prompt me for the speech synth.  After Orca
was running, I could see opentts in the list of choices.  See, I never
had speech dispatcher and opentts installed at the same time due to
other possible conflicts.

Anything else needed, let me know.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:11:14AM +0100, Jon wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for doing this!
>
> Instead of repeating code, can you see a way of factoring out the common 
> code, and then have sd and opentts as small sub classes that contain the 
> diffrences between themselves?
>
> Yes I do believe that if Orca cant make a connection to the speech engine, 
> then it will not be included in the list of available speech servers.
> I would have to dig into code to be 100% sure though.
>
> Best,
>
> -Jon
> On Mon 17/05/2010 at 15:42:41, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > OK, I have built a test environment but now have another question.  if
> > the python module for opentts isn't yet installed, does this
> > intentionally keep Orca from finding it when I scroll through the list
> > of server choices in the Orca configuration dialogue? I don't see it
> > there.  I don't have to have opentts already installed while I build
> > Orca, do I?  I'll forge on ahead here but wanna be sure I'm going the
> > right way.
> >
> > Also, I opened bug #618927 to track and upload patches to address this
> > Open TTS enhancement.
> >
> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 03:47:16PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > I'm about to get underway setting up opentts modules for Orca.  I plan
> > > to clone the stuff form speechdispatcherfactory.py and whatever
> > > upstream references there are for speech dispatcher in calling scripts
> > > or makefiles.
> > >
> > > What I want to be sure of is if Jon, for example, is working on any
> > > speech dispatcher stuff, I don't wanna bump heads with him.  Is there
> > > any pit-falls I should look out for?  Under the new OpenTTS package,
> > > the python directories for speechd and speechd_config will be changing
> > > to opentts and opentts_config.  My intent is to basically leave speech
> > > dispatcher unchanged but add opentts as a new option.  This way, both
> > > modules will be supported for the time being until we figure out what
> > > happens with Brailcom and/or the OpenTTS project.
> > >
> > > There was a recent but pointed to that references speech dispatcher
> > > stuff which I think will be used for any patches I supply unless it is
> > > preferred we start with anew RFE.
> > >
> > > Any advice welcomed.
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