Re: [orca-list] Is anyone still using gnome-speech with Orca master?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I forgot to say actually on the topic of gnome-speech, despite this 
issue existing, I have moved to speech-dispatcher (I think I just tend 
not to use say all that much). However as I said it is annoying to have 
the delays when using say all and it is something which really could do 
with being sorted.

Some time ago I was going to look at this, but as I know python but not 
C, I was looking at it from the orca side and got a bit tangled up with 
the flow through code when using say all (I think it uses callbacks and 
that was where I got lost). However thinking back over messages I have 
seen on this, I possibly was looking at it from the wrong end, some seem 
to think opentts did have a fix at one time but that got lost when the 
two merged back.

Michael Whapples
On 28/04/11 03:54, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 21:29 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > This slowness with orca and speech-dispatcher is a real problem. Its
> > something to do with when using say all.
> Ugh. Not what I wanted to hear, but thank you for saying it nonetheless.
>
> I think the thing to do then is to get to the bottom of things, file
> bugs against the appropriate components, etc., so that we can resolve
> things once and for all.
>
> For what it's worth, I personally have no animosity towards
> gnome-speech.<grins>  But the deprecated gnome-speech, which depends
> upon the deprecated bonobo, is going the way of the dinosaur. So even if
> we keep the support in place within Orca, we're going to find fewer and
> fewer distros with gnome-speech available to us.
>
> Any volunteers able and willing to start digging into the
> speech-dispatcher issue?
>
> Thanks! Take care.
> --joanie