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

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Le 07/07/2018 à 21:49, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> In the meantime, my suggestion would be to not enable all the variants
> by editing your speech-dispatcher configuration file.

Then, if that can work, maybe provide the list of all variants for
a  given speech synthesizer, and a small shell script that would patch
~/.local/share/orca/usersettings.conf to set the selected one as "name"?

I don't know if it's easy to find or build this list for all speech
synthesizers, though, and maybe it depends on which voices are
installed.

I could try to do that (a shell script that let the user pick one of
the variants in a list, then patches usersettings.conf accordingly).

Clues to get the list of variants for each speech engines is
welcome, then the script would just "while read" it. Of course
the way to parse the input can depend on the speech synthesizer.

This is assuming that any variant can be used by orca, even if not all
are enabled in the speech dispatcher configuration file. I will check.

Didier

 
> 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