Re: [orca-list] Some questions

[Luis González <luisg123v gmail com>]

Thanks Henry! I didn't know about the xdesktop branch of Orca.

I have several Linux installations and some of them are GNOME 2 based;
so I installed latest xdesktop branch of Orca (3.2.0-xdesktop). Since
I compiled it, I can modify .po files where translations are located
(what I was talking about: "Screen reader off."). It seems like this
is the only way to go, because after .po files are compiled, .mo files
are generated and I haven't figured out how to edit .mo files or if
it's even possible; and Orca's dictionary seems not to work when I use
phrases (several words to be replaced).

Furthermore, I believe the two ways pronunciation issue is related to
Speech Dispatcher, because if I use espeak-synthesis-driver (GNOME
Speech Services) under gnome 2 it doesn't happen and if I use Speech
Dispatcher it does. That's one of the reasons I like GNOME Speech
Services more than Speech Dispatcher, because I think it provides a
more consistent reading; especially when I'm programming, where Speech
Dispatcher is annoying! :). The only disadvantage I've encountered to
GNOME Speech Services is it's very slow to read uppercase letters.

PS. I've noticed when using Speech Dispatcher symbols are read
according to Orca's symbol names (according to .po/.mo files) only
when they are read character by character; and on a different way
otherwise. I could help to track this issue to find where is the
problem.

2014-08-12 17:24 GMT-04:30, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com>:
> Yes, I've edited that string.
> We need to try and improve the over all tone/accent of espeak for Spanish. I
> like eSpeak a lot in English, but have
> resorted to voxinwhen I need to listen to a lot of spanish.
> I'd even use svox-pico but it was very unstable on Vinux for me, and I could
> not even get it to work at all on Arch as I
> recall.
> If the distro you want has mate 1.8 available, then latest orca will work
> nicely with it.
> You'll need to check dependencies, and at-spi packages for sure will need to
> be up to date, as well as python ones.
> Suerte,
> --
> B.H.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 04:11:27PM -0430, Luis González wrote:
> > Thanks Henry!
> >
> > 2014-08-12 13:32 GMT-04:30, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com>:
> > > Generally no, there are dependencies that are pretty much not doable.
> > > Those
> > > distros are no longer very supported anyway.
> > Yes. I asked it because CentOS 6.5 is the latest stable version of
> > CentOS, and I also wanted to know if it would work under mate.
> > desktop.
> >
> > > I only sometimes even here that, usually shuts down too fast to hear it
> > > all
> > > anyway, but I don't knbow, probably could do
> > > so editing code, but no option for this as far as I know.
> > In the past, I almost never heard that, but now I always do. But
> > you've given me an idea, if I can find the dictionary, I could remove
> > that entry or replace it with a empty string.
> >
> > > Yes, depending on synth you can probably edit speech-dispatcher/modules
> > > files, can't remember if anything in
> > > speech-dispatcher.conf relates to this. Having punctuation pronounced in
> > > two
> > > different ways is not a Spanish only issue.
> > > I don't find this very high priority, so have not bothered to mess with
> > > it
> > > often, but again, either by working with orca
> > > dictionary or the synth's module file in speechdispatcher dir you can
> > > change
> > > how things are called.
> > Thanks! I edited the file
> > "~/.config/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf". I found the
> > following line:
> > EspeakPunctuationList "@+_"
> >
> > And i replaced it with:
> > EspeakPunctuationList "@+_-;:()[]{}\\|&\"<>"
> >
> > What I don't know is why some of them are not spoken by default (e.g.
> > "<" and ">"). In my opinion, they should.
> >
> > > I'm not sure about whether this is part of intended behavior that may
> > > need
> > > default adjustment, or if it's a outright bug.
> > > See above for possible fixes, not sure what will be effedcted, i.e.
> > > whether
> > > typing echo or reading pronunciation will be
> > > effected, although I've played with this years ago.
> > > What synth are you using for Español?
> > I'm using Speech Dispatcher, espeak and the "spanish (es)" voice. By
> > the way, what happened to espeak synthesis driver?
> >
> > --
> > Salu2
> > Luis F. González V.


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Salu2
Luis F. González V.