I can confirm this. I took the plunge and installed Jaunty earlier this evening. Quite impressed thus far. I was rather skeptical reading everyone's praise, as getting a good accessibility configuration seems to be a bit of a black art and I couldn't imagine getting it right without individual tweaking, but it's very snappy out of the box on my Eee, and I'm actually thinkingg I won't need to install speech-dispatcher and deal with custom configs. For the curious, I'm using the gnome-speech espeak driver, which worked poorly on Intrepid but performs nicely on Jaunty.
But the latest updates broke speech. Orca either spoke at normal speed, or incredibly sped up for a phrase or two. It also seemed to truncate everything such that the ends of all phrases were lost. This didn't seem to affect sound playback, though, as I successfully played an MP3 just fine. I just re-installed the beta, and will avoid applying updates for a while until this is resolved. The beta seems quite reliable. On 03/30/2009 12:24 AM, mike wrote: > Hi, I just got the updates for 9.04 and Luke's fix was broken. There were > some pulse audio updates and after restarting Orca was back to speaking so > fast that you can't understand it. > I hope this isn't going to be the case every time we update 9.04 in the > future, because I like the way it works when Orca works correctly. > Mike. > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
