Hi Michael,
Absolutely. I have Dectalk, Festival, FreeTTS, etc all built and
compiled in gnome speech and it is easy as cake to switch to another
synth in orca. Smile.
MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
can you have more than one software synthesiser on a Linux system, for
example Dectalk and Espeak and
Hi list,
I've been wondering this for quite a long time. I have some Cepstral
voices for Windows, but was thinking of buying some for Linux for quite
a while. Can anyone tell me weather the theta or swift engines are
supported, and a list of known voices which work with gnome-speech?
Thanks.
Hi,
hank smith wrote:
can you also enclude espeak? I think that is the name of the tts engine
I've never heard of it. Is it free or commercial, and is it supported by
gnome-speech?
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Hi,
Cheryl Homiak wrote:
1. I can't get the version of gnome-speech recommended for orca to
compile on my debian unstable system. It hangs after checking for
javac and responding yes in the configure. Does anybody know what
might be the cause for this and is there an up-to-date version
Hi,
MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
When I get Ubuntu on my desktop, should I do my updates via the command
line with apt-get or use that popup thing that comes up when I loggin?
Well, most of the time I open gnome-terminal and use apt-get to add,
remove, and update my Ubuntu system. However, if
Hi,
krishnakant Mane wrote:
can some one give me the link for stable build?
Well, if you want to get the latest stable build try
ftp://cdimages.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/20060831
and if that doesn't work try
ftp://cdimages.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/20060829
Hth.
Hi,
Krister Ekstrom wrote:
When speaking of software that works with Orca, firstly, is the Firefox
2.0 included with Edgy or do i have to fetch it?
Firefox 2.0 comes on the Edgy live cd. I've been told it will be
shipping with the latest version of Firefox 2 when 6.10 is out for
release in
Hi Michael,
MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
What I would like to know is what applications does Orca work with as I
will only have access to the Gui based applications unless there are
text based ones I can use as well?
Orca works with several GUI based applications as well as a wide range
of
Hi, Michael.
After extracting the Dectalk runtime files cd to the Dectalk directory
and do a
./install
which will ask you for your product ID. Also you need to edit the *.sh
files to make sure everything is going to /usr in Ubuntu.
As for making Orca recognize Dectalk go to the Gnome ftp site
Hello, Michael.
There was a 22 year old girl trying to install Orca for me but she
couldn't find where the Ubuntu package was downloaded.
In order to download and install the orca package you must uncomment the
universe lines from your apt package sources list. Then while connected
to the
Hi, Michael.
Does this also mean I have to try and disable the drums that sound
before I type my login information?
No. Just the one that sounds right after you login seams to cause the
problem. Also if you plan to use game the sound that game makes when
sending and getting messages causes
Hi, Cody.
Well, you will have to first install the Dectalk RT for Linux, uninstall
gnome-speech, and recompile gnome-speech from scratch to get the driver.
As for orca I have always built my orca from cvs sources, and can not
say one way or another if you will have to reinstall orca. I believe
Hello, Michael.
It doesn't matter if you get a *.tar.gz or a *tar.bz2 package as you can
easily uncompress them both with tar. However, the bz2 package is better
compressed, smaller, so if you are on dialup it makes it easier to grab.
The current version I have is 0.2.6 which I compiled from raw
Hi, all.
Ok, well I have been running orca 0.25 with gnome-speech 0.4.0 and
festival and Dectalk 5. I've noticed orca crashes quite often
unexpectedly, and the only way to get speech back is to reboot from scratch.
Some notes about the problem. When orca crashes all sound, speech, and
system
Hello, Mike.
Mike Pedersen wrote:
This may be a case of the entire desktop getting hung.
That is a strong possability. I noticed when orca goes I can't even get to run
and open gnome-terminal and often I have to control+alt+f1 over to a shell to
kill orca to get gnome freed up.
Are you at
Mike Pedersen wrote:
A minor error in my last message. That should have been killall -9.
Also, you will need to of course restart orca after doing this.
Thanks I caught that the first time, but I am glad you sent the
correction anyway.
Smile.
Mike
Hi, Cody.
Well, I'm quite happy with Ubuntu 6.06 at the moment. It's desktop cd
comes with most of the apps you want out of the box such as gaim,
evolution, firefox, gedit, etc. It is fairly accessible, and I have been
using it for a couple of days now, and I can't complain to much about
Hi.
Jason White wrote:
As long as the access software you need has been packaged for your chosen
distribution, it doesn't matter much which you select from the point of view
of accessibility.
That is true, but right now it seams Fedora Core 5 and Ubuntu 6.06 are on the
leading edge of
Hi
Al Puzzuoli wrote:
i'm not sure how much you could ascertain by
listening to the orca demo at csun,but I would be curious as to what your
thoughts are as to the speech quality of 4.64 vs that of 5?
There is certainly a difference in quality between 4.6.4 and 5.0. The
4.6.4 version used at
Hi
Adam Myrow wrote:
There is also a very annoying bug in the Dectalk 5.0. If you use any of
several compound words that start with fire, it pronounces them weirdly
with a phantom Euro symbol getting inserted, then proceeds to butcher the
rest of the line. Anybody else hear this?
No, I
Adam Myrow wrote:
On another note, does Fonix still offer the Dectalk RT for Linux?
Yes, they do. However, when I purchased Dectalk 5 I had to jump through
hoops on there web site to find the Dectalk RT page, and there site is
not accessible for a blind user. I had to actually acquire sighted
Cody wrote:
Hello all,
Hi.
I was wondering, after a bit of googling, I found this distro called
Ocularis, and it had claimed to be completely accessible to the blind
and only for the blind, and yes, it had a desktop, of which I'm
guessing gnome.
H I have never heard of this
Hi, list.
I wanted to setup the Fonix dectalk up with gnome-speech, but I was
wondering which version works best with gnome-speech 4.6.4 or 5.0.
The Dectalk Mike used for the csun demo of Orca sounded pretty good, and
I was wondering if that was 4.6.4 or 5.0. If it is 5 I'll upgrade so I
can
Hi, Mike.
Do you know if 5.0 will work as well. I don't see any major reason to
say not, but I am just wondering if you guys have any issues with 5 and
gnome-speech.
If not I'll test it and let you guys no.
Thanks.
Mike Pedersen wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I wanted to setup the Fonix dectalk up with
Hi, Mike.
Yeah, I have 4.6.1 and 5.0 but not 4.6.4. I haven't tested with
gnome-speech, but Dectalk 5 seams to work good with Emacspeak as far as
stability. 4.6.1 is terrible.
Mike Pedersen wrote:
Hi, let me clarify here. I'm using Dectalk 4.6.4 which is much more
stable than the 4.6.1
Hi, Ryan.
Yes, an unattended install of Ubuntu 6.06 is possible, but without solid
install manuals from the Ubuntu comunity on the subject is a rather
bloody and tough process. I mainly compiled what I know from the Debian
archives of manuals, and managed to get Ubuntu on my system. Still
Hi, list.
Ok, after an entire day of trying I do have a working Ubuntu 6.06
desktop system on my pc. Only during the process I have discovered what
may be a very major bug in either Ubuntu's gnome-panel, gnopernicus, or
both.
If I do an alt+f2 to bring up Run, type gnopernicus, I get an error
Hi.
Thanks for the tip. I finally figured that out after trial and error,
but thankfully got it now on my system.
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:
Thomas,
I've a feeling that you've downloaded the wrong ISO. For what you want to
do, You'll need the alternate install image from Ubuntu.
Hi, list.
This might seam like a really stupid question, but I have been hearing
allot about Ubuntu Linux which I'd like to try, and don't have a
fricking clue on how to get it up and working. I have spent hours
reading the Ubuntu sight and can't even find a basic install guide for
it. So
Hi, Jason.
Thanks for the information. I just read through the Debian installation
manual, and while it seams strait forward I don't think it reflects
what I am seeing as far as Ubuntu 6.06 desktop version. Now, the manual
did mention using a preconfiguration script which would allow one to
Hi, Ben.
What happens if you don't have an internet connection at the time. I am
assuming from your post the Ubuntu desktop cd doesn't contain
gnopernicus. If not I am basicly screwed.
Anyone know if the server eddition or the alternative install version
has gnopernicus? I need to get this
Hi Michael,
To open the Gnome main panel menu, the start menu, use alt+f2. Note, if
you don't like alt+f2 and later wish to change it to be control+escape
it can be done in your Gnome settings.
I highly recommend reading the good Gnome documents at gnome.org. It
will give you all the hot keys
Janina Sajka wrote:
I believe those two environments rely on gui
configuration tools, so I am not surprised people would talk about
wanting gui configuration tools. But, it's the wrong approach.
Hello. I wouldn't go as far to say it is the wrong approach, but I do
believe it should not be the
hI,
i CAN'T SPEAK FOR BRAILLE SUPPORT, BUT i CAN SSPEAK FOR SPEECH. i HAVE
USED GNGNOPERNICUS FOR MONTHS USING FESTIVAL AS MY SOFTWARE TTS TO GO ON
LINE USING mOZILLA aPRIL 20005 TO BUY AND SELL ON THE LINE, PAY BILLS,
USE EVOLUTION FOR EMAIL, WORK WITH oPENWRITER, AND GEDIT. i USE GAIM FOR
aol
Hi Bill,
Here is some user feedback from a user using Gnome, and what I would
like to see access for in htenear and not to distant future.
1. Support for Mozilla firefox. Firefox has become almost the industry
leader in web browsers, and it would be the best choice for the Sun Java
and Gnome
Thanks for the info.
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:55 -0500, George Kraft wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 10:02 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 11:09 -0500, George Kraft wrote:
Samuel Daragh,
I have the Linux IBM TTS running on Fedora Core 4. It needs ALSA
1.0.9a
Hi,
Bill is right. We shouldn't sell the Gnome access to short yet. After
all there is work that needs to be done, but we have achieved huge
breakthroughs in access already.
For example, three years ago i could do nothing at all in Gnome. Now,
I daily use Evolution for my email, mozilla as my
You wrote:
Sun's Mozilla accessibility engineers have put back most of the
accessibility
fixes from our branch into Mozilla trunk, and are now focusing on Firefox
accessibility.
I have heard this before, but I am wondering what the Firefox status is right
now. Is there anything we can
Hi,
I haven't noticed gnopernicus being slow here. However, I have slightly
newer machine than you. I have a pentium 2 GB processor, 512 MB of ram,
and 32 MB of vidio memory, and it works ok with responce.
Although, this is with festival. When I try Dectalk or other sinths it
seams to drag allot.
Hi,
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:53 +0800, Harry Lu wrote:
Which version of evolution are you using?
I just checked rpm and it states i have evolution-2.0-43 installed.
Perhaps I should upgrade to a newer version of Evolution from Mandrake
cooker?
Anyway, in all version of evolution, if
Hi,
In game go to create new account and you can select what type of chat
clients you want to use.
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 18:18 -0700, Opie Taylor wrote:
Hello all,
when I type the following into konsole:
export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
then I type
gaim
it will fire up gaim
Hi bill,
I just tried passing the export gtk_modules variable to gnome terminal
fired up gaim and I got absolutely nothing out of gaim.
What am I doing wrong? I get nothing out of that app.
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 21:19 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
HI Cody:
The problems you are having are
Hi,
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 14:57 +0530, Aditya Pandey wrote:
I have been observing that when esd (enlightened sound daemon)
conflicts with gnome-speech on my Red Hat Linux 9.
Does it happen at all versions of linux or is it that I am using a
back dated version (0.3.0 of gnome-speech).
Yes,
Hi,
Snip
Hello all,
I am a new linux / gnopernicus user. I have tried to install gnopernicus on
my mendrake official 10.1, but, when i do rpm -i
gnopernicus-0.10.9-3mdk.i586.rpm,
a message indicate that the folowing librarys are missing :
* libgnome-mag.sos.2
*
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:28 +0100, Darragh wrote:
Hello again,
I'm trying to use Yast with the help of gnopernicus but its not reading
anything. I'm more than likely going to need to have access to this on a
daily basis so not having access to it is really not an option.
Well, i hate to be
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:37 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
HI Darragh
I'm afraid that YaST (the graphical version, at least) is not
accessible, because of the way it is constructed and implemented. The
YaST graphical toolkit does not talk to the gnome accessibility
infrastructure, and I
Yast uses Qt, so by porting it to Qt4 it should be easily possible to make it
accessible.
Ok, that is interesting. I've heard good things about the new QT, but
haven't had a way to try it.Anyone, know where I can get KDE 3.4 and try
QT 4?
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with accessibility, but the gnopernicus constant speech issues
makes me want to resolve that problem asap.
Thanks.
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From: Peter Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Thomas Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:48 PM
Subject: Re
Hi Don,
I know from experience Fedora puts all it's gnome stuf in /usr by default.
It is generally a good idea to do:
./configure --prefix=/usr
to make sure the files go where they are suppose to go. However, the
exception to that rule is if you are using something like garnome or another
Hi list,
I have been setting up evolution, but am having a problem with the address
book feature. After I created the addressbook I have found I can not get in
to it to send emails.
I can tell I need to click on to in the new message to open the addressbook,
but I can not get gnopernicus to get to
Hi list,
I am interested in upgrading my copy of gnopernicus from the stock
gnopernicus shipping with Gnome 2.8.3 to a newer release. However, I would
like to know what is the latest stable release that is backward compatible
with Gnome 2.8.3.
Thanks.
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Hi Jude,
I can tell you that your problem is not unique, and it doesn't seam to be
memory related. I have ran Fedora and Mandriva with systems of 512 MB or
greater and Gnopernicus 0.9.12 and greater seam to high dive for no reason
at all.
An example I was opening evolution like I did several times
You wrote:
Are there any other mozilla tricks?
Yes, there are quite a few hot keys in mozilla that aid you in reading the
web pages and navigating around in Mozilla. One of my personal favorites is
f6 and shift+f6 for quickly switching between frames on a web page.
You can get a crash course by
You wrote:
This is especially frustrating with mozilla. I have installed the
sun-mozilla-1.7 build with its accessibility features and so far it looks
nice, but
I can only get to the links and I know there is more on the screen to
review.
Have you enabled carot browsing mode in Mozilla? If you
Hi,
I have found the Sun Mozilla ccessibility builds quite
accessible over the last couple of months. Yes, the standard Mozilla you get
with Linux is not very good at all. However, I've been able to do almost all my
browsing with the November and December builds of Mozilla.
With the latest
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