Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

[Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

is there a way to change espeak variants like setting the default so 
that orca uses klatt4 rather than the variant it speaks with by default?


On 5/15/2013 2:55 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> 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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