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



Hi,

I tested Orca using the emacspeak speech engine for about 30 minutes at work today.

Bottom line: Orca works very well with the emacspeak speech engine as long as you don't try to also run emacs with emacspeak in a console window.

The details:

I was using Ubuntu 10.10 with the version of Orca released with that Ubuntu release. After logging in, I reconfigured Orca to use the emacspeak speech engine and adjusted the parameters until I had speech output the way I wanted it using a DECTalk Express. I spent about a half hour doing work I could do using only Orca. I spent time in gnome-terminal, Pidgin, Firefox, gedit, and OO-writer. Everything worked flawlessly. At this point, I switched over to a virtual console and started up emacs with emacspeak. Initially, I could work in emacs without difficulty, but once I switched back to Orca and then back to emacspeak, things began to get unstable. Speech started dropping out in both Orca and emacs and some other issues started cropping up in emacs. At this point, I could no longer work efficiently, so I shut both sessions down, reconfigured Orca back to speech dispatcher, and then restarted emacs.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

dave


On 06/12/2011 10:08 PM, David E. Price wrote:
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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