Howdy, Having an espeak module that doesn't include speech-dispatcher has several advantages. I have worked on 3 computers in the past year on which speech-dispatcher failed to run. fortunately these were for sighted people and I was able to use speakup to get the work done, but had they been blind and wanted to use orca, they would have been SOL. The direct espeak module would have worked with no problems though, as espeak run just fine on all of them. Also, speech-dispatcher doesn't have the best track record with alsa. This would give us who dislike pulseaudio another option with good alsa support. Also, on slower devices with few resources, such as razberry pie, espeak supported directly may out perform speech-dispatcher. Finally, the espeak api doesn't change often, I theink once in the last 10 years. So once this code is in place, it will just work without any maintenence. Espeak is also a great choice for this, because it is included in every distribution, making it easy to install and set up. some may argue for festival, but to get it going requires a bit of technical know how to set up the .scm file, without which, you may not get any speech at all. Thanks Storm On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 07:09:55PM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Hi Peter. On 08/24/2015 05:02 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:Originally I assumed we should be able to at least slightly boost responsiveness of the whole chain orca vs speech-dispatcher vs eSpeak by taking speech-dispatcher out of the chain for good.But we'll still need speech-dispatcher for things other than eSpeak.I need to test it more and try to come up with more improvements to find out whether this will be at least comparable to speech-dispatcher backend.If it's comparable to speech-dispatcher's backend, what is the advantage to having two modules rather than one?Of course when we are considering adding eSpeak specific features such as variants support, rate boost and perhaps there is something else too we can either do it by first contributing this to speech-dispatcher and then adapting orca to new speech-dispatcher API.My vote would be to add these sorts of fixes and features to speech-dispatcher and then have Orca use the new speech-dispatcher API. --joanie _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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