Re: [orca-list] Thoughts on when we should use the system voice?

[Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>]

Personally, I like your example, it makes perfect sense to me.

For example, could I have espeak-NG being the default voice, and Voxin 
being a system voice? If so, I like that a lot, I feel like that's a 
pretty nice way of doing things

On 31/01/2020 19:31, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Now that I have multiple Voxin voices, I decided to use one person for 
> the system voice and one person for the default voice. (I amuse 
> easily.) :) Having made that change, I noticed that Orca was not 
> always using the system voice when I expected it to. I looked into the 
> problem, and realized that the preferences dialog wasn't setting 
> changed voices as having been "established". Thus the speech generator 
> was ignoring the voice and only message presentation was using it.
>
> Now that I've fixed that bug, the system voice is being used in all 
> the places the code thinks it should be. That includes roles, states, 
> and properties. While the code clearly suggests this is intentional, 
> it is possible that this is not the behavior you were expecting.
>
> So.... It would be helpful to have some testing feedback on this front.
>
> Please note that you will need to re-set up the voices (sorry!). But 
> the bug is that we weren't updating the value in the file written out 
> by the preferences dialog. If you don't re-set up the voices, no new 
> value will be written out.
>
> For people who cannot test this change directly, imagine you have a 
> male voice for default and a female voice for system. Orca will say 
> things like:
>
> "Enable foo" in the male voice
> "Checkbox unchecked" in the female voice
>
> "Voice" in the male voice
> "Page tab" in the female voice
>
> Is that a good thing or a bad thing? :)
>
> And what voice should key echo be in? It's the default voice now.
>
> Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to your feedback! Thanks!!
>
> --joanie
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