On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:46:43AM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > I installed the ASCII netinstall 32 bit version to my older Acer netbook > using the install with speech option since I need a screen reader for the GUI > desktop and the text console. I installed the default desktop as well as > Mate. I also install console tools and item 12 which was other utilities or > something like that. Previously when I install Stretch to the same net book > Orca ran well in the GUI Desktop but I could not get Speakup to run in the > text console. With ASCII I get the opposite. Speakup runs flawlessly in the > text console but Orca will not run in the GUI Desktop. Orca does not load > automatically, but I can load it manually. I know it is there because I can > bring up the Orca preferences screen, but I am unable to get any speech. > Speech-Dispatcher is running, Mute is off, volume is at 100%. Any > suggestions on how to get Orca speaking? If I'm slow to respond to any > help, please forgive me, I can generally only check email once a day.
Funny that you were able to get orca speaking in stretch. While I haven't played with stretch myself, someone who played with it last June asked me privately if I knew why orca wasn't coming up after the install. A couple months after that, I managed to find time to install devuan jessie, and dist-upgrade it to what is now Ascii. I found that while orca was coming up, something was messed up with speech-dispatcher itself. Using spd-say produced no output, and running spd-conf came back with a python trace back. By the time I figured all this out a couple hours had passed, and I had other things to do. I meant to come back to it, and try to figure out exactly what the problem is, but haven't been able to so far. Devuan pulls in speech-dispatcher from debian. I'm 99% sure this is a speech-dispatcher bug, so what I planned to do is to check if someone had filed a bug against it in debian's bug tracker, and to do that myself if nobody had, ideally with a solution. You've just answered a question for me, does the problem still exist, and the answer still seems to be yes. As for speakup and orca not playing nice, this has been discussed on the speakup list a number of times. You can either disable pulseaudio, or run pulseaudio system wide: <https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility> I plan to test the netinst images for Ascii myself shortly, and see what I get. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
