[orca-list] an important regression: amazing slowness when opening the voice list in orca if espeak varients are enabled

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi all
as of around seven o'clock today, a new speech-dispatcher release was
released, v0.8.3. It adds support for espeak varients, finally. This
option is disabled by default in the config file. If it is enabled,
you can now use espeak varients, which are espeak's term for
differently sounding voices. Now that I've gotten that out of the way,
there is a huge, huge lag when attempting to open the orca preferences
dialog when this option is enabled. I can often get to the voice list,
but after I open the list, the dialog becomes completely unresponsive
and has to be forced to quit in gnome. Orca itself is fine, it just
won't speak until the dialog is closed, requiring a wait of a couple
of minutes. I'm not sure what to do about this. My only guess, and it
is very much a guess, is that the voice list has grown exponentially
with the inclusion of varients, causing a delay when orca tries to
parse the much larger list. I'm not sure what to do. My suggestion
would be to add a varient combo box after the voice one, to handle
varients. This would require code changes in orca I can't even begin
to make. I can provide a debug log if needed. I normally am happy to
wait for bugs to get fixed, but this delay is so long that this can
cause all kinds of problems. And since the speech dispatcher release
is already out with the changes, it will hit distro repositories soon.
Can anyone else confirm this? I doubt that anything but arch has the
new speech-dispatcher, and that's probably still in the testing
repository, but if you can compile speech-dispatcher from git you can
test. You'll need to go and enable espeak's varient support first.
This is found in your espeak module config, at either
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf for system wide, or
~/.config/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf for local.

This is *not* a complaint, just a rather panicky sounding message grins.
Thanks all for reading
Kendell clark

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