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Bug 373078 - Unable to change voice in application specific settings file.
Unable to change voice in application specific settings file.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.17.x
Other All
: Low minor
: FUTURE
Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
3.0!
: 517912 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 570650
Blocks: Andalucia
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-09 18:42 UTC by Rich Burridge
Modified: 2012-04-08 17:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
App settings file for gaim used to test this problem. (925 bytes, text/plain)
2006-11-09 18:45 UTC, Rich Burridge
Details

Description Rich Burridge 2006-11-09 18:42:16 UTC
From Joanie. Found whilst testing the new application specific 
settings feature (see bug #363815):

My default voices setting is:

orca.settings.voices = {
'default' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 5.0,
 'family': {'locale': 'en_US', 'gender': None, 'name': 'Paul'},
 'gain': 9,
 'rate': 65.0}),
'uppercase' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 6}),
'hyperlink' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 2}),
}

I decided to make Betty my default voice for gaim:

orca.settings.voices = {
'default' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 5.0,
 'family': {'locale': 'en_US', 'gender': None, 'name': 'Betty'},
 'gain': 9,
 'rate': 65.0}),
'uppercase' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 6}),
'hyperlink' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 2}),
}

Sometimes Betty kicks in; sometimes she doesn't:

1. Launch Gaim, arrow around in the buddy list, navigate in the menus:  Paul

2. Alt Tab to get to some other window, but don't release Alt (i.e. just cycle
through them):  Betty

3. Type something in a channel with key echo enabled (or review your text with
the arrows prior to pressing enter):  Paul

4. Press Enter to send the text to the room, causing Orca to speak that text: 
Betty
Comment 1 Rich Burridge 2006-11-09 18:45:18 UTC
Created attachment 76290 [details]
App settings file for gaim used to test this problem.

I've attached the gaim.py file I used to test this.
Store it in your ~/.orca/app-settings directory.
It unfortunately doesn't work. We need to find out exactly
what speech calls need to be done to reinitialize speech, and
put them in a convenient utility function somewhere.

To be investigated further.
Comment 2 Rich Burridge 2008-02-21 17:51:06 UTC
*** Bug 517912 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Willie Walker 2009-06-17 14:25:03 UTC
Just adding a response to get this off our "bugs without a response" list.  Silly, I know, but it's needed since there was only one commenter on this.
Comment 4 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-07-05 02:27:04 UTC
(3.0 Planning Spam-o-rama. Sorry!)

Also, I'm Blocking the Andalucia metabug for now for a couple of reasons:

1. This might get fixed as a side effect of the settings work (or might not require much additional work to fix it, once the settings work is done).

2. Bugs where the 3.0 decision is Ale's, is going on his plate at least long enough for him to decide if it is 3.0-worthy or not. ;-) (Thank you Ale.)
Comment 5 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2012-04-08 17:01:45 UTC
We must have fixed this at some point because I am able to change the voice in application-specific settings.