Hi, Just reporting that eSPeak speaks with speech-Dispatcher now. Great stuff. I think this is much more intelligible and responsive than Festival is. Now I can start looking into all the GUi tools in Gnome and Ubuntu, getting to know Orca and other such things. One quick question, though:
Is there a good, canonical speech-dispatcher config for eSpeak? The one I'm using is old enough not to include pitch at all and it doesn't seem able to use the full range of speech rates either. Any tips about the offsets and multipliers available in eSpeak would be appreciated. I'll look into this on my own, too, now that I can do this properly. I still don't think too highly of the Gnopernicus magnifier. Does Orca include one? I'd relly like to dock it at the bottom of the screen but canot figure out how, in the magnification dialog. After having changed the mouse pointer to a big red one and the desktop background to dark blue the system already feels much better and cozier with the limited sight I still have left. I'm going to try my hand at creating an accessible theme that works well with my sight at some point. let's see if I've got better luck than with Debian a couple of years back. As usual, I'll continue to post regarding any major problems or observations about Ubuntu accessibility. Getting the speech up and running with a screen reader is a huge win for me personally and makes it so much easier to actually start using and troubleshooting the system. This is the second time ever I've gotten a LInux system up to this point and I'm going to make a snapshot of this virtual machine right about now. Done. Thanks to all of you people taking part in these mini threads of mine. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
