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

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I too would like to be able to use my hardware synth with orca, but I 
think it will be some time for me to see mine supported as its an apollo.

My personal feeling is that if this support should really be anywhere it 
probably should be in speech-dispatcher. As I remember speech-dispatcher 
did have a module for the apollo some time ago, but I think the 
developers removed it as they had difficulty in getting the apollo to 
work well (as my memory goes, the issue is more to do with the apollo 
rather than supporting a hardware synth in general). I would imagine to 
get the synth to work well you probably need to write a specific module 
for it rather than just adapting the generic module.

Why do I think speech-dispatcher is the right place than just make the 
emacspeak interface in orca work better? In short I think 
speech-dispatcher is used by more projects. If multiple applications try 
and access the same serial device (certainly in the case of my apollo) 
this can make the first one stop working (eg. if I am using speakup with 
my apollo and then use emacspeak with my apollo I will need to reload 
the speakup module).

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/37 20:59, 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.