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
This helps a bunch. I'm now able to pick a voice with minimal
slowness. I'm surprised it's not slower, seeing as there is something
like 3000 voices to parse through.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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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