ubuntu espeak character echo latency

[<robhill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Les and list, 

I can't help your espeak problem, but, whilst some of us do use espeak
with emacspeak, many of us use the voxin synthesiser, from 

http://voxin.oralux.net/

It is not free, but very cheap at around $5, and is of high quality.
The server to use in the emacspeak/servers/ directory is
linux-outloud. 

Rob



Les Smithson writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I'm trying to get emacspeak working with ubuntu 11.04 espeak and 
 > pulseaudio.   I've built from the latest source releases of emacspeak 
 > and espeak.  Emacspeak almost works apart from a key echo latency 
 > problem which unfortunately makes it unusable.
 > 
 > Whenever I type into a buffer there is always a 5 second delay in the 
 > character echo after every third or forth character.  This happens if I 
 > type faster than about 1 character per second.  If I turn character echo 
 > off sometimes word echo is delayed too.  Even with character echo off 
 > I'm unable to cursor around buffers as the latency also affects the 
 > speech output of the next line if I cursor too fast, resulting in a 
 > stuttering effect.  The same thing happens e.g., when i-searching.
 > 
 > I've tested the emacspeak espeak tcl server with character echo command 
 > and it seems to work fine, but I'm unable to enter commands fast enough 
 > to replicate the emacspeak latency...so I'm not sure about this.
 > 
 > Orca, espeak and pulseaudio all seem to work fine outside of emacspeak 
 > with no obvious latency problems.
 > 
 > I see from last year's mail list archives that a few people have had 
 > this problem before, but I saw no indication  of a resolution.  Has 
 > anyone had any success since then?
 > 
 > I'd appreciate any and all help with this as emacspeak look compelling 
 > and I'd love to get it working in my environment.
 > 
 > Thanks for any help you can give.
 > 
 > Les
 > 
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