Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

[Fernando Botelho <fernando botelho f123 org>]

Alex, does the higher speeds in espeak apply for all languages or just 
English?

Thanks,

Fernando


On 05/02/2013 12:30 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> It shouldn't.  I've done this before once or twice.  I stopped because I
> couldn't notice any real difference in my day to day usage that justified
> the headache.  You have to download the source code, compile it either
> againste Pulse or Alsa depending on your distribution which means modifying
> the makefile, and then hope and pray that you don't lose speech or that
> stuff that used to work doesn't suddenly stop working so well.  Only reason
> I did it before was to compile Espeak against Pulse and include the Sonic
> libraries by Bill Cox which let you increase your speech output to insanely
> fast rates like 6 and 7 hundred wpm and still retain clarity.  This was
> supposed to make my Emacspeak experience better.  It was OK but I stopped
> messing with it once I ran a distro without Pulse to make a hash of things.
> Also, I only did it after having successfully installed and gotten Festival
> to run as a backup so Orca would have something to speak with.  My
> recommendation would be to not mess with it as you can really screw yourself
> over if something goes wrong.
>
> My two cents,
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Josh
> Kennedy
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:16 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] updating espeak
>
> Hi, will it break orca or my linux distro if I download the latest espeak
> and install it? I like having the latest version.
>
>
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