Re: [orca-list] orca-list] Orca speech slows down from time to time

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I also am using espeak and have no interest in festival or flite due to 
the performance of those and the sounds of the voices. The only other 
software synth I would consider using is the IBM viavoice, except that 
has issues with speech-dispatcher (I think it was an issue of how it was 
behaving with the priority message level orca uses which lead to orca 
not producing full output).

Also, just a slight update as well, it certainly isn't specific to 
Mozilla products, I noticed the same problem occurring in gedit.

Are we fairly certain that this is a speech-dispatcher issue? Shall I 
report it to the speech-dispatcher list? Has anyone noticed this speech 
slow down with other speech-dispatcher clients or is it specific with 
orca? Could it be that speech-dispatcher expects different usage.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Yes, I use espeak.  I never tried festival.  Frankly, the flite voice
> is awful enough that I never wanted to deal with the bloated sluggish
> festival.
>
> Dunno why you are having the output issues though. I sure wish these
> sound issues in Linux weren't such a hassle.  Bring back the hardware
> synth, that's what I say.<smile>  Of course, we need external ports
> for that.  That renews my interest in developing a speech dispatcher
> module for external synths.
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:15:58PM -0400, aerospace1028 hotmail com wrote:
> > I have asound.conf all commented out.  I'm running speech-dispatcher under the default configuration from the 
> > arch git package you provided.
> > I'm still having these output issues.
> >
> > Do you run espeak?  I think I remember reading that S.D. recommends festival, but I never got around to 
> > checking out the difference in performance.
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:29:47 -0700
> > > From: Steve Holmes<steve holmes88 gmail com>
> > > To: orca-list gnome org
> > > Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca-list] Orca speech slows down from time to time
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> > > Follow my previous comments concerning PulseAudio! What do you bet, if
> > > you comment out all the pulse stuff in /etc/asound.conf and basically
> > > cripple pulse that speech dispatcher will work better.  I am not
> > > experiencing these speech slow-downs.  Also I run speech dispatcher as
> > > a central service and with ALSA and LIBAO and all seems fine in that
> > > area.                                   
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