speech-dispatcher questions (gnome speech)

[Michael Whapples]

I hadn't understood it, orca presents the different voices in the voice 
list, but obviously it doesn't communicate this back through gnome-speech.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tomas Cerha" <cerha at brailcom.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher questions


> Michael Whapples wrote:
>> I also noticed that when using orca with speech-dispatcher
>> through gnome-speech I was unable to change the voice of espeak.
>
> You can't change voices through gnome-speech, but you can still setup
> the default voice in Speech Dispatcher configuration.  Also not, that
> Speech Dispatcher allows you to set the default voice individually for
> each client.  See the manual...
>
>> I think that there has been work to make speech-dispatcher work
>> directly with orca, but wasn't sure which project it is at the
>> freebsoft website (I thought that was where the work was done).
>
> The orca backend is supposed to become a part of Orca, so there is no
> Free(b)soft project for this.  See
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher for motre information.  I
> will also try to add this information to the Free(b)soft website.
>
> Best regards, Tomas.
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