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.
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>> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown.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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