Re: [orca-list] You all're gonna think I'm stupid, but, I need help with Gnome-Speech

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Thanks for the clarification.  I could've sworn I saw the acapella
voices featured somewhere.  It must have been cepstral.

Alex M

On 5/2/12, Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Actually, speech-dispatcher does support Dectalk Access, the Cepstral
> voices, and the Ivona voices through conf scripts so in actuality you
> aren't missing much by not using gnome-speech. I've found it to be
> fairly comparable in features, and supports about the same text to
> speech engines. Here is a list of commercial engines I have gotten to
> work with speech dispatcher.
>
> Eloquence using Voxin
> Cepstral Swift voices using Cepstral conf file
> Dectalk Access 5 using Dectalk conf file
> Ivona Text to Speech using Ivona conf file
>
> That's not including the free speech engines like ESpeak, Festival, and
> FreeTTS. So in terms of supporting comercial and free voices
> speech-dispatcher and gnome-speech are about the same.
>
> As far as hardware synth drivers either I missed something or you are
> mistaken but gnome-speech never supported hardware synths. Most people
> who use hardware synths with Orca usually fell back on the old Emacspeak
> drivers. At least that is my understanding of hardware speech and Orca.
>
> In any case one thing I know for certain the Nuance Realspeak voices and
> Acapella voices were neverported to Linux so naturally gnome-speech
> never supported them in the first place.  Your saying that gnome-speech
> did is incorrect.
>
> As for why speech-dispatcher replaced gnome-speech there are a number of
> reasons for why that decision was made, and it had nothing to do with
> the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" philosophy. As has been stated
> before when Gnome was upgraded from 2.x to 3.x Corba, one of the
> components gnome-speech uses, was deprecated. To upgrade gnome-speech to
> Gnome 3 would require a major update where simply switching over to
> speech-dispatcher was a far easier and more realistic goal. Plus as I
> have pointed out above speech-dispatcher now supports a number of
> commercial speech engines, all be it through special configuration
> files, and its actually much easier than gnome-speech to upgrade and add
> additional speech drivers to. Plus speech-dispatcher isn't tied to any
> specific desktop or application so it can be used independently by any
> speech enabled application regardless of desktop environment etc. So
> that's why.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On 5/1/2012 1:35 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> > I've always wondered why they haul off and fix what isn't broken.  Why
> > was Gnome speech deprecated?  I don't believe speech dispatcher
> > supports nearly as much stuff as gnome speech did:  Hardware speech
> > synthesizers, commercial speech synthesizers like dectalk, nuance and
> > acapella and on and on and on.
> >
> > Alex M
>
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