I hadn't understood it, orca presents the different voices in the voice list, but obviously it doesn't communicate this back through gnome-speech. From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomas Cerha" <cerha@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:37 AM Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher questions > Michael Whapples wrote: >> I also noticed that when using orca with speech-dispatcher >> through gnome-speech I was unable to change the voice of espeak. > > You can't change voices through gnome-speech, but you can still setup > the default voice in Speech Dispatcher configuration. Also not, that > Speech Dispatcher allows you to set the default voice individually for > each client. See the manual... > >> I think that there has been work to make speech-dispatcher work >> directly with orca, but wasn't sure which project it is at the >> freebsoft website (I thought that was where the work was done). > > The orca backend is supposed to become a part of Orca, so there is no > Free(b)soft project for this. See > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher for motre information. I > will also try to add this information to the Free(b)soft website. > > Best regards, Tomas. > > >
