Re: [orca-list] Orca 3.29.3 hopefully coming to an unstable distro near you

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

One of us will take care of it as time permits. We're doing the best we
can with the resources we have.

In the meantime, my suggestion would be to not enable all the variants
by editing your speech-dispatcher configuration file.

If neither are these are acceptable to you, perhaps someone else could
provide a patch.

Thank you for your understanding.
--joanie

On 07/07/2018 03:36 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 07/07/2018 à 20:06, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > Today I did an unstable (v3.29.3) release of Orca. With any luck,
> > distros which maintain repos with upcoming versions of packages like
> > Orca will include it. This will make it possible for people who are
> > comfortable installing software from packages, but perhaps lack
> > familiarity and comfort using git and/or building and installing
> > software from source, to test much of what is in Orca master.
>
> Just did a git pull, will package && test it now and report my findings
> (if any, knowing that I am a distribution maintainer, not a "real"
> user thus can just say if something looks badly broken).
>
> Meanwhile, if I may... I will bring again to your and Samuel's attention
> the issue with variants as it seems me to be a major one, preventing
> to practically use variants for voices provided in many languages and
> variants.
>
> Cf. among others:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2018-July/msg00022.html
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2018-July/msg00088.html
>
> As an aside I just realized the Samuel had opened a related issue
> against speech dispatcher:
> https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues/22
>
> I am sorry to insist and feel shameful to request a fix and not being
> able to provide one, but that's the situation.
>
> I have nothing against naming the new field in the Voices tab of the
> GUI "languages". It could go between the combo boxes labeled 
> "Speech synthesizer"
> and
> "Person"
>
> Thanks for all both of you do and best regards,
>
> Didier