The SpeechDispatcher API has some limitations which make the user experience with orca a little less nice - as I understand it, SpeechDispatcher doesn't support completion/progress tags within an utterance, it can only tell you when an entire utterance is complete. While I hear that espeak's quality is quite nice, that may be outweighed by this limitation.
Many end-users seem to prefer DecTalk for quality of speech over our current free alternatives, and there's a gnome-speech driver for it that supports progress markers. Will Walker or Mike Pedersen will know more about the details. regards Bill Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rather than a commercial speech solution, I would recommend eSpeak at > > http://espeak.sourceforge.net > > It works with speech-dispatcher and is Free and Open Source. It also > sounds a lot better than Festival and is in most cases better than > either DECTalk or IBMTTS, especially the female voice. > > Unfortunately, Orca in Ubuntu doesn't currently support > speech-dispatcher except through gnome-speech, and the speech-dispatcher > driver for gnome-speech may or may not be available in Ubuntu. Someone > clarify this for me. I'm not sure either if eSpeak is available in > Edgy, although I did read something to indicate that it is. > > HTH, > Lorenzo > - -- > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFM/+NG9IpekrhBfIRAp/nAKDCN0nLYPlLCPZwsEjuCecYWaICsACfYTaX > wG7CyrfFzylBZOCSSDi1YMA= > =I0gK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
