Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I've been using eSpeak on NVDA, my Rockbox MP3 player and with 
Orca/Speakup/Emacspeak for years, and I guess I haven't noticed the 
incremental improvements in the English voices. Maybe if I jumped to a 
version of eSpeak I was using years ago all of a sudden, I'd notice the 
improvements in speech. The only reason I've been tempted to download 
and recompile eSpeak myself is to use it directly with PulseAudio, 
instead of going through the PortAudio interface. Other than that, I've 
always been happy with whatever the distribution has included.

I'll be OK with whatever the Orca developers decide, but I also wonder 
if this is a good use of their time. I mean I can download and recompile 
eSpeak myself if I want to, but I can't go in and fix many Orca or 
accessibility infrastructure bugs.

On 05/15/2013 01:48 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> I always update espeak and with each update it gets better and better.
> No breakages at all. not on my end at least with NvDA.
>
> On 5/15/2013 1:52 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 03:18:17AM EST, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > > I'm no Orca developer, but I wonder if Orca should be in the
> > > business of writing scripts to update eSpeak. Maybe this should be a
> > > packaging implementation in the distribution, e.g. Vinux has an
> > > eSpeak package in it's repositories. Also, what's changing in eSpeak
> > > so much these days that it needs to be updated more frequently than
> > > it's being updated in the distributions?
> >
> > Its also worth mentioning that the latest is not always the greatest.
> > I am sure many list members can remember times when they have upgraded
> > something, only to find a previously fixed bug is back, or some other
> > breakage makes it difficult or impossible to use an application's
> > functionality.
> >
> > Luke
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