I'm very glad to hear about positive experiences so far with Karmic.
I installed the x64 version yesterday on my laptop (Dell Inspiron
9400). Orca did work out-of-the-box, which is nice. If blind users
absolutely must do a few things on linux, Karmic can do the job.
However, I found there to be a delay due to pulseaudio of about 1/2
second, making key and word echo useless. The delay is so bad, I
don't see how I could use Karmic with Orca full-time. I installed
voxin as well (far nicer than espeak, IMO), and had two additional
problems, besides the delay. When using speech-dispatcher, speech
would pause every few seconds for about half a second, which is
seriously annoying. When using Gnome Speech Services, instead of
pausing, it simply stops speaking, so it is very tedious to listen to
an entire document. I suspect both problems are related to the delay
in pulseaudio.
With the virtual machine install, I was able to get Orca working well
by uninstalling pulseaudio, as described here:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuKarmic
However, when installed on my laptop, removing pulseaudio caused
speech-dispatcher to hang, with 100% CPU utilization. So, for now, I
have no suitable Karmic-based Orca solution. Are other people seeing
the delay problem? Is it only with the x64 version? Are you using
Karmic/Orca as your main machine, or just playing around a bit?
Thanks,
Bill
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