On Tuesday, April 07 2009, Janina Sajka said: > Jeremy Katz writes: > > On Monday, April 06 2009, Janina Sajka said: > > > Problem Areas > > > > > > * It would be preferable to use gnome-speech-espeak as the default > > > * Orca driver for several reasons: > > > -- Espeak is more responsive and that's a big deal with a screen > > > reader. Low latency, quick "shutup," etc., are far more important to > > > screen reading than high quality speech synthesis. > > > > > > -- Festival is a particularly bad choice in the "shutup" > > > department. It will keep speaking until it has finished the string it > > > was given to say, whatever the user does. This makes for very sluggish > > > handling. The user must wait for the computer to finish speaking, with > > > no ability to stop speech and move on. This has things the wrong way > > > round as computers should wait on people, not people on computers. > > > > How do they compare size-wise? In any case, file an RFE against the > > gnome-speech package as it looks like that's where the change would need > > to be. > > > I'm so glad you asked! <big grin> > > Looking just at the rpm sizes, espeak is about 1.3M and > gnome-speech-espeak is about 16K. > > This compares to about 13.8M for the three Festival packages--so a > significantly smaller footprint. Is Festival present only for Orca? Or > for other applications in the Live image as well?
I believe just Orca > Also, are you suggesting filing the RFE with the upstream GNOME project? > Or for the Fedora Live product itself? File it in Fedora bugzilla against gnome-speech. The maintainer may then want something upstream, but it's the right place to start Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
