Orca and eSpeak

[Willem van der Walt]

Just to let you all know, I have tested the theory and it does work.
I currently have Orca speaking using Espeak.  It is responsive enough. on 
my laptop.
Kind regards, Willem


On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Jonathan Duddington wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0609221023490.31361 at localhost.localdomain>,
>   Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> wrote:
>> Orca uses gnome-speech which has a driver for speech-dispatcher which
>> can be configured to use espeak. If espeak is the default voice of
>> speech-dispatcher, it will work. Regards, Willem
>
> I asked about this on the Ubuntu Accessibility list, and got this
> answer from Luke Yelavich:
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:40:08PM EST, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
>> I've been asked whether Orca can use the eSpeak software synthesizer.
>>
>> I believe that Gnome Speech can be set up to use Speech Dispatcher,
>> and Speech Dispatcher can use eSpeak.  So in theory the answer seems
>> to be "yes".  Has anyone done this, and does it work in practice?
>> Does responsiveness suffer as a result of the additional intermediary?
>
> I have used orca with speech-dispatcher via gnome-speech, but not with
> espeak. It is to say the least, very clunky. There is a speech output
> module under development for orca for interfacing directly with
> speech-dispatcher, but it is still very much in the early stages.
>
>> Or would it be better to write a Gnome Speech driver for eSpeak?  The
>> drivers seem fairly small but I don't understand the environment in
>> which they are written (concepts such as bonobo, oaf, corba etc). But
>> if someone wants to write a driver then I'll be happy to assist.
>
> What would actually be better, is to have a module written for
> speech-dispatcher to interface with the espeak shared library, rather
> than call the command-line utility all the time. Personally, I feel
> gnome-speech needs to be removed, and speech-dispatcher should be the
> speech back-end of choice.
>
> Espeak will very likely be a synthesizer that will be used for various
> tasks in the next release of Ubuntu, such as spoken boot,
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpokenBoot.
>
> I intend to get the newest version fo espeak packaged in the next few
> days.
>
>
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