Re: [orca-list] a couple of bugs in profile changing

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I'll take a look. Thanks for the report!
--joanie

On 07/18/2016 08:58 AM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> Unable to confirm, but discovered other bugs. I have a default profile
> set to polish, another profile is set to macedonian voice. The problem
> is that when I switch profiles for example to macedonian and back, then
> it may be the case that for example trying to read things uses polish
> voice, going by arrows letter by letter uses macedonian but only if I
> enter another window, such weird things like that. so sometimes I have
> half macedonian half polish settings for some reason and that is... weird.
>
> W dniu 18.07.2016 o 08:33, kendell clark pisze:
> > hi all
> > I'm writing in to report a couple of bugs encountered when using the
> > unbount shortcut to cycle to the next profile. These could be bugs in
> > the ibmtts synthesizer which mellisa uses on her computer, I'm not
> > positive. When changing profiles, the synth changes, but when reading
> > text, orca still uses the pitch from the previous profile when reading
> > text and not the pitch of the new profile. To clarify, I have espeak set
> > to the default pitch of 5.0 but ibmtts uses a slightly lower 4.5, and
> > when reading text orca uses the 5.0 pitch. Also, if you enter the orca
> > preferences to change settings, when the ok button is pressed the speech
> > slows down significantly. The way to get around this is to go back into
> > the preferences and move the rate slider up and then down, which
> > restores the rate to normal, and then press the ok button. The last bug
> > is when changing back to the previous profile. The synth isn't changed
> > when changing to the previous profile but the pitch, rate, etc are.
> > These could be bugs in ibmtts, I can't test on my own computer since I
> > don't install it on my systems. Can anyone who uses voxin confirm this?
> > You'll need to first set a keyboard shortcut for cycling to the next
> > settings profile. To do that, go into the orca preferences, switch to
> > the "keybindings" tab, and locate the item called "cycles to the next
> > settings profile". It's in the unbound section, unless you've set a
> > shortcut for it. Press enter, then press the keys you want to be bound
> > to it. I'd suggest something like orca+right arrow but you can use
> > whatever you like. Then press enter to confirm. Orca will confirm the
> > new shortcut. Then press the "ok" button to save your settings. This is
> > with sonar linux 16.07, orca master completely up to date as of 10
> > minutes ago.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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