Re: [orca-list] Speech Dispatch vs OpenTTS

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I'm replying back to the list to see if anyone else has noticed this
problem.  To answer your question though, I have not experienced any
problems with OpenTTS on my box with Orca.  I have noticed an
occasional issue with Firefox but I just figured that was Firefox and
Orca's tribulations.  In general, I've been using Orca with OpenTTS
for over a week now without any losses of speech.  I've been able to
apply for jobs, file unemployment claims and order music from an
online service, all using Firefox, Orca and OpenTTS.

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:36:17PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> Hi Steve
> Have you been able to get the Orca Open TTS support working reliably? It
> doesn't want to work for me. Most of the time when I select it I get no
> speech, and the few times I did, certain items such as lines of pure
> text in Firefox wouldn't talk. I have Open TTS itself working and have
> for some time, otts-say and ospeakup work without an issue. Orca though,
> doesn't seem to like it much. I made sure speech dispatcher was killed
> and then restarted Orca, but it's still not working properly.
> I'm not getting any tracebacks or anything odd in debugging output. Orca
> believes it's working, and will even respawn openttsd if I kill it so it
> is communicating, but it's just not speaking. I've tried the espeak and
> ibmtts modules so far, with identical results.
>
> On 05/28/2010 07:33 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Now that OpenTTS support has been merged into git master, it is now
> > available to all those who wish to try OpenTTS with orca without
> > having to apply patches and the loke.  This brings up an opinion I
> > wish to express.  
> >
> > At this point in time, Orca supports access to two similar speech
> > engines - Speech Dispatcher and its forked clone, OpenTTS.  The
> > reasons for forking and creating a clone belong to a separate thread.
> > the supporting modules for these speech systems are presently mere
> > copies of the other except for names.  However, this could change in
> > the future if / when OpenTTS moves out and possibly adopt new
> > features, standards or whatever.  For that reason, I have strong
> > reservations about combining or merging the Speech Dispatcher and
> > OpenTTS speech factory python modules.  They could be merged possibly
> > now but the common modules, if any, might pin OpenTTS down to
> > limitations of Speech Dispatcher or even visaversa.  So for the time
> > being, it means having to support two speech modules if a change
> > should occur requiring updates to the factory modules.  Let me go on
> > record now, saying that I will be willing to watch over the Speech
> > Dispatcher and OpenTTS factory modules and try to keep them current
> > with one another until one of them has unique features not supported
> > by the other.  Obviously at that time, each module would need to be
> > more on its own, enjoying separate support.
> >
> > I hope noone minds too badly having two speech systems nearly
> > parallels of each other but this gives people a choice and flexibility
> > for future changes.  Just an aside, the OpenTTS develpers have managed
> > to correct numerous memory leakes and other critical stability fixes.
> > That alone makes me want to use OpenTTS instead.  But for each his or
> > her own.
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