I first kill Orca and then restart speech-dispatcher
On Ubuntu I do sudo service speech-dispatcher restart
Then start Orca and it goes fine.
I tried "killall speech-dispatcher". It didn't work. I have had an alias defined for like a decade to do "kill -9 speech-dispatcher". I think the dash 9 is necessary. I just couldn't remember the alias last time I lost speech or what it did. After rebooting the second time, I took the time to go through my bashrc and remind myself of the alias. So I'll try kill dash nine next time it happens.
I have both a braille display and a hardware speech synth. So I can do stuff in the GUI even if speech fails. And I can switch to a terminal window and use speakup even if orca is broken. So I ought to be able to pin the problem down if I just take the time to do it.
On 1/21/20 8:53 AM, Devin Prater wrote:
If speech stops again, try pressing Alt_F2, then typing
Kill all speech-dispatcher
You may have to revise the command, as Ive not had to use it in a while, being on a Mac without speech dispatcher. Next time you perform a command, Orca will revive speech dispatcher.
On Jan 21, 2020, at 8:50 AM, John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu <mailto:jheim math wisc edu>> wrote:
I just bought the old IBM voice and the Samantha voice by Vocalizer from Oralux. I am using the IBM voice right now. Its as good as ever. I have not even installed Samantha yet. I should do that, I paide like $30 for it. But the IBM voice costs less than $5 American. It was worth it to me to get past the bug in espeak where it does not honor capitalization style. I cannot code with the TTS saying the word "capital" before every capital letter.
I lost speech twice last week and had to reboot. It seemed to be tied to me accessing a web page with a ton of widgets. Those tend to give orca problems. But speech would stop and nothing I have found allowed me to restart it. I had to reboot. Right now, I suspect speech-dispatcher, not orca but I'll admit I don't know. The only other thing is that when reading whole sentences, orca tends to pause as if there is a comma in the text when there is no comma. Its a teensy bit disorienting. But the voice is clear and very responsive. I can type really fast but I cannot get ahead of the speech engine.
The voices come with an installer script. after running the installer script and rebooting, you can go into orca settings and begin using the voice. I'm not entirely sure rebooting is necessary. The installer script says to do it. But its really easy to begin using the voices you buy from Oralux.
On 1/21/20 8:25 AM, Krishnakant Mane via orca-list wrote:
Hi Devin,
I have been wanting to try Voxin for quite some time.
But as time and situations had it I could not do so.
I have a couple of questions about this, and the site does not have clear answers for my questions.
1,When I am buying Voxin what all do I exactly buy? I mean I get a list of /voices to purchase from. Is that all or do I have to also get a base Voxin package and then add voices to it?/
/2, If I read correctly, I will need to buy different packages for different voices. So in Orca how does one setup voxin with multiple voices?/
/I would be purchasing over the week end so that I have enough time to configure and play around./
/I have latest Orca on Ubuntu 18.04./
/That is to say I have compiled latest source release on the said distro and not the default Orca that comes with Ubuntu 18.02./
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On 15/01/20 7:42 pm, Devin Prater via orca-list wrote:
There is Voxin <https://voxin.oralux.net <https://voxin.oralux.net/>>, which is IBM ViaVoice TTS, which sounds the same as Eloquence.--
On Jan 14, 2020, at 4:23 PM, Tirecias Engineering via orca-list <orca-list gnome org <mailto:orca-list gnome org><mailto:orca-list gnome org>> wrote:
Hello
I guess orca still using speak ng as its TTS engine, as NVDA for windows.
I understand speak ng is a very lite tts, but is there some TTS which can work in orca and that might sound more like Eloquence?
Thanks
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