Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Report On F-11 Beta With Orca
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