Re: [orca-list] Patch: Experimental eSpeak support using python-espeak

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Peter.

On 08/24/2015 05:02 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:

> Originally I assumed we should be able to at least slightly boost
> responsiveness of the whole chain orca vs speech-dispatcher vs eSpeak by
> taking speech-dispatcher out of the chain for good.

But we'll still need speech-dispatcher for things other than eSpeak.

> I need to test it more and try to come up with more improvements to find
> out whether this will be at least comparable to speech-dispatcher backend.

If it's comparable to speech-dispatcher's backend, what is the advantage
to having two modules rather than one?

> Of course when we are considering adding eSpeak specific features such
> as variants support, rate boost and perhaps there is something else too
> we can either do it by first contributing this to speech-dispatcher and
> then adapting orca to new speech-dispatcher API.

My vote would be to add these sorts of fixes and features to
speech-dispatcher and then have Orca use the new speech-dispatcher API.

--joanie