Re: [orca-list] Is anyone using Orca with Emacspeak? And does speech-dispatcher support hardware synths?

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Joanie,

I'm in the group who would like to see support for hardware synths in 
Orca. I still believe that DECTalk hardware synthesizers are the best at 
high speeds. I use my two DECTalk Express synths with emacspeak at work 
and at home, and just ordered a new DECTalk USB for a second machine at 
work since I learned that they have serial ports again. However, I 
currently use software speech synthesis in Orca because, when I tested 
it a couple of years ago, using emacspeak's speech server in gnome as 
well as in a virtual console resulted in squirrely speech output. I'll 
test it tomorrow when I'm at work (Ubuntu 10.10) and let you know if 
that is still the case.

I'd love to see support for hardware synthesizers in speech dispatcher, 
but I seem to remember that the group who developed it only wants to 
support software speech synthesizers because of the cost of hardware 
synthesizers. Anyone from that group can contradict me, though.

I'll let you know what I find.

dave


On 06/12/2011 08:16 PM, David Csercsics wrote:
> I would like to be able to use my hardware synths as well I have usb
> serial converters for a reason. It would make a lot of sense not to have
> to rely  on working sound systems for speech given the weird state of
> things like pulseaudio and espeakup and per user sessions and things
> like this. There's too many ways you can end up without speech with the
> current Linux distro sound mess. I'm not really familiar with any of the
> code but I have time to help sort this out if somebody wants to tell me
> where or what to look at first. But I'm not even going to bother looking
> at code if this is not something people want.
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