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Maybe I'll have to give gnome-speech a try. I use speech
dispatcher
all the time because I don't wanna tie up my sound card with
OSS or
whatever. I had always heard that speech dispatcher was the
way of
the future so I avoided using gnome-speech. But if it works
good with
Cepstral....
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:04:05AM -0600, David E. Price
wrote:
> Hi, Will,
>
> I use Cepstral Callie with gnome-speech all the time
with no problems.
>
> dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie
Walker" <William.Walker Sun.COM>
> To: "Steve Holmes" <steveholmesgrown.com>
> Cc: "Orca E-mail List" <orca-listgnome.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Cepstral
>
>
>> Do you experience the same issues when using the
gnome-speech driver for
>> Cepstral? I'm the guilty person responsible for
the gnome-speech driver
>> for Cepstral, so it's very likely I could have
screwed something up when
>> writing it.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>> That's too bad too. I really like their voices
and would love to
>>> listen to Cepstral Callie all day long while
running Orca but she
>>> falters too much. Like I say, if I could get
them to work with ALSA
>>> and perhaps a direct speech dispatcher module,
maybe things would be
>>> better for her.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:19:00AM -0600, John
Greer wrote:
>>>> Yep Cepstral voices do that too on Windows.
Most likely it is just the
>>>> way
>>>> Cepstral voices are. I have never seen
them be responsive enough for
>>>> screen reader use.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From:
"Steve Holmes"
>>>> <steveholmesgrown.com>
>>>> To: "Orca E-mail List"
<orca-listgnome.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:22 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and Cepstral
>>>>
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>>>>> I've used it some with speech
dispatcher but notice a lot of
>>>>> hesitation and even momentary drop-outs
both in Orca and in speeckup
>>>>> with speechd-up. I have a fast enough
machine with plenty memory (2
>>>>> GB) but still the sluggishness.
Anything I can look for to make
>>>>> Cepstral perform better? I suppose it's
got to do with using the
>>>>> generic module. Too bad I can't come
up with a direct module for
>>>>> Cepstral like espeak.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:42:27PM
-0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>>>>>> Hi. Cepstral voices will work with
ORca. If you run Debian or Ubuntu,
>>>>>> you just buy and install a voice,
>>>>>> apt-get install gnome-speech-swift,
switch ORca to use your new voice,
>>>>>> and enjoy.
>>>>>> Cepstral Swift is supported with
speech-dispatcher using the generic
>>>>>> module. You can get a
swift-generic.conf file from:
>>>>>> http://hittsj
unk.net/swift-generic.conf
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>>> Kenny
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:34:14PM
-0900, Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello, all,
>>>>>>> Can anyone give me some
pointers on (a) whether Cepstral voices work
>>>>>>> with Orca, and
>>>>>>> (b) how to do it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Terrence
>>>>>>>
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