Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-20 Thread Eduardo Trápani
What should I install to be able to show that? Gnome, KDE, it does not matter as long as it works and is stable enough to show it working. I am not objective WRT to this question, but I will nonetheless point out that if you download the latest Ubuntu Live CD from here: I tried it, it

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-17 Thread Christian Gerhardt
Good morning! :-) * Henrik Nilsen Omma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I install to be able to show that? Gnome, KDE, it does not matter as long as it works and is stable enough to show it working. I am not objective WRT to this question, but I will nonetheless point out that if

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I downloaded both ESpeak and Speech dispatcher as Ubuntu packages and i also downloaded the Speakup support in Speech dispatcher, the one called speechd-up. /Krister On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 17:54 -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rather than a

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-17 Thread Tomas Cerha
Bill Haneman napsal(a): The SpeechDispatcher API has some limitations which make the user experience with orca a little less nice - as I understand it, SpeechDispatcher doesn't support completion/progress tags within an utterance, it can only tell you when an entire utterance is complete.

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Haneman
That's interesting Tomas; Will Walker of the orca team seemed to think the problem was in Speech Dispatcher itself (as of last week). Perhaps you would contact him about it? Bill Tomas Cerha wrote: Bill Haneman napsal(a): The SpeechDispatcher API has some limitations which make the

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-17 Thread Willie Walker
Tomas: We are holding off on incorporating Speech Dispatcher into Orca until we can get callbacks: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349394 Thanks! Will On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 23:15 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: That's interesting Tomas; Will Walker of the orca team seemed to think the

Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-16 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hi, I'll talking about accessibility in general and I would love to show a (more or less) working linux desktop solution for blind people since everybody I know uses Jaws/Windows :(. What should I install to be able to show that? Gnome, KDE, it does not matter as long as it works and is

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-16 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Eduardo Trápani wrote: Hi, I'll talking about accessibility in general and I would love to show a (more or less) working linux desktop solution for blind people since everybody I know uses Jaws/Windows :(. What should I install to be able to show that? Gnome, KDE, it does not matter as

Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Haneman
The SpeechDispatcher API has some limitations which make the user experience with orca a little less nice - as I understand it, SpeechDispatcher doesn't support completion/progress tags within an utterance, it can only tell you when an entire utterance is complete. While I hear that espeak's