Re: [orca-list] orca and pulse audio work around

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Luke,


On 5/13/14, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> I find that quite interesting, given that we do not have proper
> speech-dispatcher drivers for cepstral yet. Is there a difference in
> response times between the 2 systems, given one has a direct driver, and the
> other is working through a command-line program?

Yes, there are. On Windows the Cepstral voices I have tried such as
Callie does seem a bit more responsive and less likely to crash than
on Linux. On Linux Callie tends to lag more and will often cut out
completely. So creating direct speech drivers for Speech-Dispatcher
would probably make the problem less noticeable with Orca. That said,
the Cepstral voices like Callie, David, Dianne are still slower and
tend to lag a lot more than say Espeak so they aren't particularly
good if someone wants fast responsive TTS output in any case.

HTH