Unable to use espeak with orca

[Michael Whapples]

Alternatively you can use the gnome-speech espeak module. I have managed
to get the espeak gnome-speech driver to go through alsa. If you want
more details on this I can give them.

It would be good for those with slower computers where lag is going to
be more noticable to compare the two ways of using espeak. I found that
speech-dispatcher lead to less chance of speech becoming choppy, but
there were times (eg. when changing folders in evolution, using
evolutions mail folder list) did have a bit of a lag with
speech-dispatcher.

From
Michael Whapples
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:33 -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hello,
>     Orca doesn't have an 'espeak' module for speech synthesis, as I recall. 
> What it does have is a Gnome Speech module.  Gnome Speech in turn hooks into 
> Speech Dispatcher, which hooks into Espeak.
> Now, I have had no difficulties with Orca forgetting any preferences of 
> mine--it uses Espeak just fine.
> Hope this is helpful,
> Zack.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Garrett Klein" <garrettklein at comcast.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 3:22 PM
> Subject: Unable to use espeak with orca
> 
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I got orca working yesterday. And I had it using espeak.
> > However, sometimes Orca seems to "forget" that it's supposed to
> > use espeak, but keeps my speech rate/key echo settings in tact.
> > I upgraded to svn orca this morning, and it was working fine,
> > until it forgot my preferences again. I should note, at this
> > point, that espeak isn't available in the GUI preferences,
> > regardless of version. And in the newest orca, I get a python
> > traceback at the end of running orca --text-setup.
> >
> > Anyone else have this problem?
> >
> > Garrett
> >
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