Re: [orca-list] Espeak voice variations are not displayed in Orca preferences dialog.

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Is speech-dispatcher the reason that I can't seem to get Orca to 
indicate uppercase characters, and can't even use the setting for it?

Thanks!

Al

On 11/27/2012 4:29 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:52:27PM EST, Dattatray Bhat wrote:
> > Using Ubuntu 12.04 with Orca 3.4.2, I am not able to choose voice
> > variations like croak, female1, female2, ... male1, male 2, ..., whisper
> > etc. because they are not displayed in Orca preferences dialog. A little
> > exploration showed that the folder /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/!v
> > contains the voice files all right. But in each of the files, language is
> > set to the value 'variant'. The file 'croak' has following contents -
>
> Orca doesn't support these variations because speech-dispatcher doesn't support these variations, and I don't 
> think speech-dispatcher's current architecture allows such variations to easily be supported and offered to 
> clients. I agree this would be nice to have, but it requires someone to do the work to extend 
> speech-dispatcher and make this available to speech-dispatcher clients.
>
> Luke
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