Hi. Just wanted to let you know that a new gnome-speech package (now hosted in the pkg-gnome team repository) is on its way into debian experimental. When the NEW package gets accepted I think we'll pretty quickly transition to unstable. This version features support for espeak, which I am already using right now in combination with orca from unstable. The espeak backend for gnome-speech feels very snappy and responsible. espeak also offers various foreign languages. There seems to be a strange bug that causes orca to start the wrong speech backend whenever it initializes, after a reload it starts the other as well (the one that was configured). I haven't had time to look into that yet. Might be a funny ordering problem since test-speech lists espeak as the second alternative while orca configuration offers espeak as the first alternative. Support for speech-dispatcher is not enable yet in the version of gnome-speech currently awaiting approval. Is there any input from the speech dispatcher crew regardings the stability and usefulness of that third backend for gnome-speech? -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
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