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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Cool! Given that I'm really having to focus on Chromium and general 
web-related support in Orca these days, is there any chance of a Hypra 
patch that will improve the presentation when multiple voices are being 
used?

--joanie

On 2/4/20 9:31 AM, Samuel Thibault via orca-list wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Joanmarie Diggs, le mar. 04 févr. 2020 09:19:38 -0500, a ecrit:
> > 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.
>
> If the same output module is used, ssml can include a <voice name="foo">
> tag to make the synthesis switch voice within the same text. Using
> different output modules, however, will require splitting anyway.
>
> Similarly, pitch can be changed on the fly with <prosody pitch="high">,
> etc.
>
> Samuel
>
> > 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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