Distorted speech in Orca on 14.04

Hi all, I've just upgraded my Ubuntu installation from 12.04 to 14.04. So far all appears to be well, apart from the fact that Orca will sometimes produce distorted/garbled speech. It's as if the speech rate goes so high that you can't make out what is being said. This doesn't happen all the tim

RE: Distorted speech in Orca on 14.04

Thanks Milton. This seems to work great. Is there a bug logged for this that I can lend my support to? Thanks, Nick -Original Message- From: Milton [mailto:mil...@tomaatnet.nl] Sent: 25 June 2014 18:24 To: Nick Wood; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Distorted

RE: Distorted speech in Orca on 14.04

Thanks Milton, I've made the alterations to /etc/pulse/default.pa that Majid posted and so far everything seems good. Cheers for your help. Regards, Nick -Original Message- From: Milton [mailto:mil...@tomaatnet.nl] Sent: 28 June 2014 14:27 To: Nick Wood; ubuntu-accessib

Problems with Ubuntu Gnome 14.04

Hi all, I installed the vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 on an old laptop and was not happy with the performance of the Unity desktop (machine only has 1GB of RAM which I gather is too little to get good performance from Unity). Next I tried a fresh install of Ubuntu Gnome, which I gather is like the vanilla

RE: Problems with Ubuntu Gnome 14.04

ication of when the OS is ready. Regards, Nick -Original Message- From: Amir [mailto:trend669...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 October 2014 15:30 To: Nick Wood Subject: Re: Problems with Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 Hi, sorry but i dont have the answer 4 yr question but i want to ask, do you get speech dur

14.04 logon screen: Orca starts up and immediately shuts down

Hi all, I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 (32-bit) and have Orca set to start automatically at the logon screen, but I'm getting some weird behaviour: Basically what happens is this: 1. I get the sound of the drums. 2. Orca says: "Screen reader on. Login screen frame. Screen reader off." 3. I then have

Re: The launch of my crowd funding campaign on Patreon.

On 25/05/17 15:26, Sam Hartman wrote: Hi. It's likely I should know the answer to this, but I don't and I makes it hard for me to know how to prioritize supporting your work. Would you mind giving a breakdown of the top five projects you tend to spend time working on? Linux accessibility for t

Re: Oricle Virtual Box

Hi Glenn, Its a long shot I know, but have you made sure that VirtualBox has the keyboard focus before pressing the Orca shortcut keys? I'm not familiar with VirtualBox, but with VMWare you have to press Ctrl+G so that VMWare grabs the keyboard input and sends it to the guest operating syste

Re: VmWare problem

Hi Glenn, Are you sure that Ubuntu has the keyboard focus? If not, your keystrokes will not go through to the guest operating system. I use VMWare on linux, and by default VMWare does not grab keyboard focus unless you either put the VM into full screen or press Ctrl+G (or click with the mo

Re: Sound muted or turned low

Hi Daniel, When this has happened to me I usually find that removing or renaming the .config/pulse directory in my home folder is enough to reset everything. Can you SSH into the machine from somewhere else, or log in as a different user? I have learned to have a second user account set up

Re: fedora and accessibility list

Hi Daniel, I'm not aware of one, but personally I don't mind if you post your question here and we'll see what we can do to help. Regards, Nick On 03/09/18 18:20, Daniel Crone wrote: Hello everyone. I am trying fedora now. Is there a fedora and accessibility list? May I post my fedora drop