[orca-list] Sluggishness in Orca

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:24:13PM AEDT, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Hi Joanie,
> 
> Speaking specifically about espeak-ng and the KLATT variants, the variant 
> could
> become an information distinct from the voice, presented by speech-dispatcher 
> in
> as specific field, with also its own field in Orca preferences Voice tab.
> 
> This could both decrease sluggishness and help users not navigate in a too 
> long
> list (although the sluggishness be way smaller using Chromevox in Chromium 
> with
> espeak-ng + variants) 
> 
> But then, that would probably need a modification of the API and maybe of SSIP
> itself, and I am not sure that this be worthwhile?

I have covered this before from a speech-dispatcher point of view. I've even 
documented my thoughts on it in the TODO file. If someone wants to do the work, 
a rough outline is there.

Luke