Re: [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
Looking into this a bit further, I've found the following.
Configuring speech-dispatcher's varient support does indeed increase,
by a lot, the voice list of orca's preferences dialog. I no longer get
the complete hang of the preferences dialog, but it is still extremely
slow.  I also have a basic idea of how a varients combo box can be
added,  at least for now until a proper varients api in
speech-dispatcher is added. When you use espeak varients,
speech-dispatcher adds a plus and the varient name to each voice in
the list. So for english, you get english+male1, english+male2, etc
for all the available varients. This goes for every single voice
that's in the list. If a varients combo box is added, you could simply
look for that + character, and make a nother combo box called
something like varients, with the contents of the varients in that
box. so you'd have male1, male2, etc. This would solve the huge list
problem, and still allow someone to choose a varient. This is of
course a bit of a hack until speech-dispatcher gets an API to get and
set the varient. Once that's there, you can just use that to get it,
and that's probably a Mlot more elegant. I've generated a debug log
and can send it if anyone needs it.
Thanks
Kendell clark


kendell clark wrote:
> 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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