Re: [HEADS-UP] Please test Re: Speech overlapping with espeak-ng

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Samual,
I don't have a lot in the way of technical knowledge, but I can try to help you test.  What do you need?  I don't use brltty, so if that's what you're
lookin for I might not be much help.


Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Could people really please test these brltty and espeakup packages?
>
> In short: if I don't get feedback very soon, I'll have to revert them to
> espeak for Stretch, which would be very sad.
>
> If there is something preventing from doing the tests, please tell, I
> can't guess it.
>
> Since the migration to espeak-ng poses strong problems, we *have* to
> fix them before the release. If people don't actually test the fixes,
> there's no way we can be sure that things are alright. I did test these
> packages, but since I'm no speech user, I can't have a good idea of what
> *sounds* right.
>
> We have to decide very soon what to do for the next Debian release,
> Stretch. The full freeze is 5th February, we can't introduce big
> changes after that date, plus the 10-day migration period, it basically
> means we have to decide by 25th January. If I don't get reports saying
> that brltty 5.4-5 and espeakup 0.80-4 are now good, I'll revert to
> espeak by 25th January.
>
> To make testing yet easier, I have uploaded the packages to be tested
> (brltty 5.4-5 and espeakup 0.80-4) into experimental. They are now
> already available with:
>
> deb http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-experimental main
>
> Please test!
>
> Samuel
>
>
> Samuel Thibault, on Sun 15 Jan 2017 15:57:48 +0100, wrote:
> > I have uploaded to
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/
> >
> > a version of espeakup which introduces a 150ms delay after the cancel.
> > This should be small enough to keep reactivity, but long enough to
> > clearly separate speech. You can tune this value with the additional -c
> > parameter.
>
> Samuel Thibault, on Sun 15 Jan 2017 16:19:55 +0100, wrote:
> > I have uploaded brltty packages on
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/
> >
> > too. The delay can be changed with the cancel_pause espeak parameter,
> > e.g.:
> >
> > /sbin/brltty -S cancel_pause=150 blabla...
> >
> > or
> >
> > speech-parameters es:cancel_pause=150
> >
> > Could people give a try to these packages, and see which value of the
> > cancel pause they prefer?
>
> Samuel
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