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

[Jeremy Katz]

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