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casper package

[feisty] Default spoken language

Bug #81881 reported by Gilles Casse
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
casper (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Luke Yelavich

Bug Description

Binary package hint: casper

The Casper accessibility script in Feisty have to help to select the default spoken language by the eSpeak voice synthesizer. More details in:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MultilingualSpeechSynthesis

Orca selects by default the first voice in the list returned by a
gnome-speech driver.

The gnome-speech driver for eSpeak puts as first item of the list of
voices, a voice possibly matching the LANGUAGE environment variable.

I hope to provide a patch. If you already focus on it, thank you to let me know.

Gilles

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote :

I am happy to work on this, but if you have started, I'd be happy to have a look at what you have already done.

Thanks.

Changed in casper:
assignee: nobody → themuso
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Gilles Casse (gcasse) wrote : Re: [Bug 81881] Re: [feisty] Default spoken language

Luke Yelavich writes:
 > I am happy to work on this, but if you have started, I'd be happy to
 > have a look at what you have already done.
 >

You're welcome. In fact, no code has been written yet.

Gilles

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote :

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:48:12AM EST, Gilles Casse wrote:
> Luke Yelavich writes:
> > I am happy to work on this, but if you have started, I'd be happy to
> > have a look at what you have already done.
> >
>
> You're welcome. In fact, no code has been written yet.

Ok, as you may have seen, I've assigned it to myself, and once the
archive is opened up again, and espeak is in main, I'll work on it.
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Gilles Casse (gcasse) wrote :

> The gnome-speech driver for eSpeak puts as first item of the list of
> voices, a voice possibly matching the LANGUAGE environment variable.

In a recent daily built CD, the LANGUAGE environment variable is not set though (reported as Bug #84416 ).

For finding the default language, the gnome-speech driver for eSpeak will be updated for using LANG if LANGUAGE is not set.

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Gilles Casse (gcasse) wrote :

A patch has been proposed:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409573

Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)
Changed in casper:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Gilles Casse (gcasse) wrote :

Using the most recent daily built CD, and after having selected French in the boot menu, Orca speaks in French by default :-) .
Thanks for the high responsiveness regarding gnome-speech 0.4.10 !

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Has the fix for this bug been released then?

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Gilles Casse (gcasse) wrote :

Today, it works without fix for Casper, gnome-speech selects now the correct voice of eSpeak according to the LANG variable.
I would rather close this bug.

Do you agree too, Luke?

Luke Yelavich (themuso)
Changed in casper:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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