>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Magill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello > Oralux 0.7.6 is great/fantastique. Agreed -- I have been trying it the last couple of days. > I am using the Speakup desktop, and I have a persistent home directory > and persistent configuration files. I am booting from the CD rom. > I try to change /home/knoppix/.emacs and /home/knoppix/.bashrc > (on hard drive). My changes work until I shutdown. > The next time I boot from CD, my changes disappear/are overwritten. I got this problem as well, but I'll try the site Dave followed up with. I have a few other comments, suggestions and questions... (I'm a sighted user with about 20 years of Emacs/ *n*x experience, looking at Oralux partly to send to a friend who is blind and who does a lot of computer work with JAWS, and partly out of interest): >From starting Oralux with my eyes shut, I thought it would be really helpful if there could be a distinctive beep sound as the "boot:" prompt appears, and another when it times out. (I don't know what the programming environment is at that point, but I expect you can get a beep anyway?) And also (or maybe this isn't really a problem?) perhaps a slight "click" sound for each line of text output to the screen during startup, so that if really stuck with booting on a machine, you can at least report "It stopped after the first twenty-five clicks" or whatever. When emacspeak has done its introductory fanfare, could it output a message telling you how to make it speak the first screenful of instructions? This would make it more helpful for sending for people to try out. It should probably be said quite slowly, as the user won't have tuned their ear to the voice at that stage. And since the message would be annoying for those who have got past that stage, you could suppress it if either the elisp variable inhibit-startup-message is set (as that is used for the visual startup message in non-speaking emacs) or if the user has saved their configuration (as they probably won't do that until they have heard the initial instructions at least once). The machine I'm trying it on has two sound systems, one on the motherboard, and one on a separate soundcard (I normally run Dragon Naturally Speaking, under Windows, on that hardware, with emacs-vr-mode, and Dragon is fussy about what sound system it has). Oralux uses the motherboard sound system, although the startup messages make it look as though it has found the soundcard. Not really important, but it would be nice if I didn't have to have the microphone on one and the speakers on the other; and probably good to use the best sound system you can found when probing the hardware. Long-term ideas: I'm working on some elisp for easier navigation and editing of source code (at the level of statements etc) and when the initial version is stable, will look at emacspeak-enabling it. It's designed for use with reduced keyboard activity, or voice input (I have RSI). Eventually, I would like to get an emacs system working with both input and output by voice! Is there a guide to creating new voices (for other languages) for MultiSpeech? I can't find anything by googling. The friend I'm sending the disk to would ideally want Dutch and Czech as well as several of the ones already on Oralux. __John _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
