Re: [orca-list] Please explain details on orca with speach dispatcher

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Hello,

I'm sorry, I must have missed this question, so now I am replying thanks
to Willems response...

There are two different options for integrating Orca with Speech Dispatcher:
  * Speech Dispatcher Gnome Speech driver (refered by Willem)
  * Speech Dispatcher Orca backend (recommended not only by me,
    but also by Hynek Hanke, the author of the SD Gnome Speech
    driver).

I have just today updated the information on the Orca wiki, so please
see http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher for more details.

The advantages may basically be:

 * ALSA support (allows sharing your audio device with other
   applications even on a single channel sound card)

 * Sharing the speech subsystem by several assistive technologies
   (speakup, speechd-el, Orca, LSR, ...)

 * support for some speech synthesizers not supported by Gnome
   Speech (see the Speech Dispatcher homepage at
   http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd for the list of supported
   synths).

 * Depending on the output driver it may provide lower latency and
   better stability.  For example Festival seems to work better with
   Speech Dispatcher,  Espeak is currently slightly faster with
   Gnome Speech (since its SD driver is very suboptimal).

There used to be some synchronization problems in the early versions of
the backend, but currently I believe it works reliably and supports well
the cursor/speech synchronization.  Reports of any issues are welcome.
Please test with the latest SVN version of Orca.

Hope it helps, Tomas

> On Thu, 10 May 2007, krishnakant Mane wrote:
> > hello tomas and other fellow listers.
> > I have been hearing a lot about dispatcher and that it will work with orca.
> > now here are a few questions.
> > firstly, kindly tell me what will be the biggest advantages of using
> > speach-dispatcher with orca?
> > second, do I have to do sudo apt-get install speach-dispatcher or
> > similar command?
> > and can some one like tomas provide details on what and how to configure?
> > regards,
> > Krishnakant.