Hi Jude, Interesting... How might I do this at a CLI with no speech? If the commands are not too lengthy, I might succeed. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <[email protected]> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 8:56 PM Subject: Re: Orca does not speak
Very probably a pulseaudio problem. Another list I read had a person downgrade pulseaudio and all associated utilities and that's how he got orca working again. That was on the sonargnulinux e-mail list too. On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 21:33:51 > From: Glenn / Lenny <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Orca does not speak > > Hi, > I am using Ubuntu 16.04 64 on an Intel NUC PPYH with 8GB of RAM. > I have run Ubuntu on this 15.1064 bit already, so this should work. > I ran Orca on start up, and set up the voice like I usually do, but on > okaying it, Orca shuts down, it says: > screenreader off > So I log out, and get the bongo sound, and bring up Orca in the log in > window, and Orca stays on. > This is a live version on an SD card with a persistent file. > I have noticed, that when I log out, before the bongo sound, Orca says: > screenreader off > Then Orca comes on again for the log in window, and stays on. > When I log back in, there is no speech. > But that would indicate that Orca is working, but silent. > Is there a way I can make Orca louder? > If I do: > control + alt + T > and then type: > sudo speaker-test -c 2 > I get the speaker test > and I end it with control + C > So I know that my system is not muted and the volume is okay when I log > in. > I wonder if there is a problem with eSpeak? > One difference I did between the speech settings in the log in window, and > when I was in the desktop, was that I selected U.S. English in the synth > list, instead of the standard English, which I left alone for the log-in > window. > Could this be a problem for eSpeak? > If I need to change that back, can someone send me the number of tabs to > get to the voice selection list? > Or is there a command to setting Orca to its defaults? > > I sent this problem to the Orca list, but have heard nothing there. > > Thanks for any help. > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
