[orca-list] significant lag when espeak varients are enabled

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi list
I'm bringing this up again to hopefully figure out if it's just my setup
or something with orca. When espeak's varients are enabled in
speech-dispatcher, there's a 10 second lag when opening the orca
preferences list, even though it starts out on the general page. When
focusing the voice page, there's a 2 or 3 second lag, but the longest
one is when selecting voices in the voice list. I hope I'm not being a
pest by bringing this up again, and I'll be happy to produce a debug log
if needed. I'm trying to track this down to figure out if this is a
speech-dispatcher bug or an orca one. The main reason I bring this up at
all is that since gnome 3.20 and at-spi 2.20 have come out, I can now re
enable espeak's varient support in sonar. But I'm hesitant to do so
because of the severe lag this causes. But I want to personally thank
Mike Gourse for fixing the bug to make it possible, despite the lag,
because before it wasn't possible to use them at all. Can anyone else
confirm this lag? This is on sonar linux mate edition, fully up to date,
plus using orca master. This lag is on a quad core machine with 8 gb of
ram, so I suspect the lag will be much worse on slower systems, but I
don't know for sure.
Thanks
Kendell Clark