I do not know all of the details, but both of these are available in the
Orca speech preferences dialog.
Don Marang
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From: "Øyvind Lode" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:04 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Screen reader with Linux
Festival is still alive, but rarely used these days.
Actually I think the project is abandoned, but the Festival package is
still
available in most Linux distributions.
Espeak is the "best" open source speech synthesizer.
Orca use espeak.
Espeak is also the default synth in NVDA (open source screen reader for
Windows).
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of matthew
Sent: 22. februar 2010 16:47
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Screen reader with Linux
A few years ago a friend showed me a speech program called festival for
Linux . I wonder if that is still out?
On 2/22/2010 7:21 AM, Donald Marang wrote:
I guess the fate of Orca, just like so many other Sun technologies and
products, such as Open Office and Java, are in limbo! All will be
supported by the open source community. However, possibly being
without the corporate backing things will be different.
Orca still lives on and there are several screen reader possibilities
in Linux. I think Vinux 2.0 had 4 different screen readers
configured. Orca using SpeechDispatcher drivers is the default. I do
not know if driver is the proper term for SpeechDispatcher. It seems
to be a favorite speech infrastructure that many of the screen readers
can use. It is not the only way to set it up. Linux is even worse
than Windows when it comes to the realm of possibilities and fractured
communities.
Vinux developers are busy on Vinux 3.0. It looks very promissing. It
will be based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.4, which will be released in April.
They have a lot of work being done on accessibility of the Ubuntu
release in April and the customizations for Vinux. Vinux 3.0 is
expected to be released shortly after unless a major accessibility
issue is discovered. Vinux 1.x was also based on Ubuntu, but it was
decided that the basic Ubuntu had too many stability issues with
speech. Vinux 2 was therefore moved to a stable Debian release for
better stability of accessibility components and application support.
Unfortunately, this slightly sacrifices bleeding new technologies and
better hardware support. Usually this becomes apparent with wireless
network and the latest hardware. This time major accessibility issues
have been resolved even before Ubuntu is released.
Vinux is located at:
http://vinux.org.uk
Don Marang
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From: "Silpa Mallipeddi" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 12:55 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Screen reader with Linux
Hi Ric:
I heard that people use ORCA on Linux, but after Oracle had purchased
Sun, they laid off ORCA.
So, I would like to know if there is any screen reader to work on Linux?
Thanks and regards,
Silpa.
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