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
I'll do my best. I'll just start inserting more new lines in my
messages. I'm not aware of how my messages look lol.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Firstly Kendell, please please please consider breaking your text
> up into paragraphs, as it makes it much much easier to reply to.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:21:41PM AEST, 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
>
> This is why it is only a temporary solution, and why it is off by
> default. There are over 1000 entries in that list now, thanks to
> all the voices with all variant combinations. Unfortunately it is
> not possible to type ahead in the list to get to what you want.
>
> Another work-around is to use the command-line spd-say utility to
> look through the voice and variant combinations, and then hand-edit
> your Orca config file. Use something like "spd-say
> --list-synthesis-voices -o espeak > espeak-voices.txt"
>
> You would still be able to use the variant, even with the
> configuration option turned off, as the configuration option only
> affects the listing of voices and variants, not the usage of them.
> So you could generate a file to use as reference as above, then
> turn the variants option off and restart Speech Dispatcher, and
> then edit Orca configs accordingly.
>
> This is of course only if you are confident hand editing
> configuration files.
>
> Given the above issue, getting an APi added to allow Orca to use
> espeak variants is on the priority list, however things have to be
> done such that the mechanism that is put in place will allow any
> such synth to provide optional extras should we wish to do so. Of
> course this will also require additions to the orca UI.
>
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