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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell, all.

I will deal with adding a variants combo box before too long so that
selection is easier. In the meantime, I've stopped the slowness.

--joanie

On 06/12/2015 03:44 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> 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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