Re: [orca-list] Confession time: My speech lag may be due to my use of the sound card, exclusively

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Possibly.

You could also try killing Speakup before launching the graphical
desktop. Cumbersome, but it might be instructive.

You might also try using the libao drivers for Speech-Dispatcher and
Orca. there's a configuration option for this in Speech-Dispatcher.

If you do get a separate audio interface, a cheap USB stick should do
the trick nicely. These are commonly available. I have a handful from
C-Media that cost me under $15 USD each. I've even had the output of the
C-Media fed back into the input of my builtin card in order to have
audio on the Laptop
s speakers from both environments, though I haven't tried this recently.
Currently my laptop does both environments using the builtin card.

hth

Janina

Daniel Collins writes:
> Folks,
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>                 When I was a Speakup user, I relied exclusively on my laptop
> sound card to provide speech.  There was no problem.  When I installed Orca,
> I assumed that I could - as per my prior experience - rely only on my laptop
> sound card to provide speech.  But there is a problem: when I press a key -
> any key - there is a half second or more delay before Orca enunciates it.  I
> have tried several fixes - none has worked and the time delay is still
> there.  Will I need to buy a separate speech synthesizer?  If so, which?
> Thanks.
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> V/R,
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> Daniel J. Collins
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Janina Sajka

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