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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
