Re: [orca-list] significant lag when espeak varients are enabled

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Got it. I completely agree with everything you've said hear. It's just a
matter of someone changing speech-dispatcher. Last I remember, luke and
a few other people were working on this, but I haven't heard anything
lately. If you can't do anything about it I think I'll turn varients off
until they're better supported. Otherwise I'll have to provide tech
support when people start asking me why orca is so slow lol.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Kendell.
>
> What you are doing is using an unsupported feature which is causing a
> combo box in Orca to have thousands and thousands of items. Combo boxes
> were never met to have thousands and thousands of items. So I can see if
> there's anything I can do to make Orca less laggy in your over-stuffed
> combo box. But what would be the best fix is for Speech Dispatcher to
> provide API to get the variants in some other fashion so you don't wind
> up stuffing a combo box with more items than it should have.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 04/09/2016 08:26 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi list
> > I'm bringing this up again to hopefully figure out if it's just my setup
> > or something with orca. When espeak's varients are enabled in
> > speech-dispatcher, there's a 10 second lag when opening the orca
> > preferences list, even though it starts out on the general page. When
> > focusing the voice page, there's a 2 or 3 second lag, but the longest
> > one is when selecting voices in the voice list. I hope I'm not being a
> > pest by bringing this up again, and I'll be happy to produce a debug log
> > if needed. I'm trying to track this down to figure out if this is a
> > speech-dispatcher bug or an orca one. The main reason I bring this up at
> > all is that since gnome 3.20 and at-spi 2.20 have come out, I can now re
> > enable espeak's varient support in sonar. But I'm hesitant to do so
> > because of the severe lag this causes. But I want to personally thank
> > Mike Gourse for fixing the bug to make it possible, despite the lag,
> > because before it wasn't possible to use them at all. Can anyone else
> > confirm this lag? This is on sonar linux mate edition, fully up to date,
> > plus using orca master. This lag is on a quad core machine with 8 gb of
> > ram, so I suspect the lag will be much worse on slower systems, but I
> > don't know for sure.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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