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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

When information is provided in different voices, Orca sends the 
information to speech-dispatcher as separate things to be spoken: In 
this case, one string for the name/label/text (default voice) and 
another for the role (system voice). If there is a way for Orca to send 
all the strings, with their independent voices, at once and have 
speech-dispatcher cause the strings to be spoken without any pauses, 
that would be great. CCing Samuel for input.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 2/4/20 5:15 AM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Personally I think it is a convinient behavior and some users will like 
> it. Keys would be in the default voice, indeed.
>
> Here I am only worry about on thing: if I change the voice of System 
> voice type, it seems that a small latency happens between the text and 
> the role name. Not so visible but ... I hear it. What about you?
>
> Here with Voxygen I changed only the high.
>
> regards
>
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> Le 31/01/2020 à 20:31, Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> > 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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