Espeak

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Willem.

Yes, I'm aware I should probably build an sd for my Fedora systems. I
guess I'm just putting off the pain. It's a bit of a job since there
isn't a dotconf for Fedora--and probably never will be unless one of us
builds an rpm for a package that hasn't changed in four years. The list
of little issues continues, but I won't belabor them here.

I am aware we need to PrintScreen to kill Speakup in the gui console. We
also need to lean (or help) Kirk get this properly handled in Speakup
itself. At this point, I should think it embarassing--especially given
as how I understand it's not much code.

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> Janina,
> If you use orca through the gnome-speech-speech-dispatcher setup with 
> speech-dispatcher, you can have the two screen readers living in harmony.  
> This works with espeak and will also if ttsynth can be used through 
> speech-dispatcher.
> Within orca, speakup says blank, top, bottom etc. so you might want to 
> kill it or turn it off while in gnome anyway.
> Regards, Willem
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > You may not be able to have Orca and Speakup talking through espeak at
> > the same time. You will probably be able to simply kill your Speakup
> > process in order to switch to Orca, then restart it when back in the
> > console. This annoying workaround is what I currently do with TTSynth,
> > and I noticed similar issues with espeak when I tried it the other day.
> > 
> > Obviously, I'm assuming you're trying to use both Speakup and Orca. My
> > apologies if my memory serves me poorly on this.
> > 
> > PS: Love that Latin voice in espeak! Now, can we get Gnome menus in
> > Latin? <grin>
> > 
> > : I'm aware of the hacks intedned to allow multiple processes to play
> > sound--but this doesn't cover the dual screen reader use case in my
> > experience. Perhaps others are getting better results?
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > I have to part with my braille display for a couple of days. In order to 
> > > function during that time, I'll have to rely on speech. Since I 
> > > communicate 
> > > in other language in addition to English, I've installed Espeak. It works 
> > > from the command line, but when I run test-speech, it doesn't show.
> > > 
> > > I'm running Debian Unstable and installed Espeak from the Debian 
> > > repository. What have I forgotten to do?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Bertil Smark Nilsson
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.202.595.7777;	sip:janina at a11y.org
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada
Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com

Chair, Open Accessibility	janina at a11y.org	
Linux Foundation		http://a11y.org