Hi all. I tried to use festival speech with orca. First I can't seem to get the CMU voices to be found in orca preferenses. Only kal show up there. another problem is that when I use festival speech don't work if I for example playing music with rythmbox, but if I close rythmbox the speech is back. It works both with speech and music if i use espeak. I use ubuntu 8.04 on a hp nx7400 laptop. Any ideas? Regards Tony (new to linux/ubuntu and loving it) Hälsningar Tony ---------------------- Kika gärna på min blog. www.bernedal.net Lyssna på Lördagsmys på www.radiomix.no lördagar 19 - 21. ------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ubuntu" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:37 PM Subject: Making synthetic speech more responsive & setting up dial up internet
> Hi folks, > > First of all, let me say that, while I was once quite proficient at > command line Unix, and some command line flavors of Linux as well, the > insidious Microsoft has completely ruined my command line knowledge over > the last few years. So, I guess I'm back to square one, if using any > command line utilities are required here, and I am afraid that will be > the case. I'm good at following instructions, though. > > My computer is a 3 GHZ processor, with 768 MB of PC3200 DDR Ram, around > 400 GB of hard drive space, and has Windows XP Home. Now, I recently > got, and was able to install, the latest version of Ubuntu using the > "Install Inside of Windows" feature. The install was quite seamless, and > I am very impressed with it. I now have a dual boot system with Ubuntu > and my Windows XP still very much intact, and I didn't need to have an > anxiety attack to get it that way. LOL!. > > I am having a couple of problems, however. The main one right now is > that my speech with Orca is very very sluggish at times, sometimes > taking anywhere from a second or even more from the time I press a key > to the time I hear any kind of feedback. I"m using, what I think, is > Gnome speech and Espeak,which I believe comes set up standard with Orca. > What can do to make this more responsive? Would the fact that I used > the Install Inside of Windows feature to set up my Ubuntu system have > anything at all to do with this problem? > > And, if I can get a good handle on that issue, my second biggest problem > is that I stil have dial up internet, with no broadband at all in my > immediate future. And, Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize dial up modems? > What would be the easiest way to fix this issue? I suppose if any > downloading is necessary, I can do that while logged in to the XP side > of my dual boot, but for now, that pretty much eliminates using any kind > of automatic download/updating ability or tools directly through Ubumtu.. > > Any instructions or pointers to any good documentation, especially if > the documentation is aimed towards Linux/Ubuntu beginners, would be very > much appreciated here. > > Thanks. > > ~Ann > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
