Older Computers and New Speech Engines

[Marian Selea]

Tim is right! Had the same issue and it has been addressed as described.
Good luck!

Marian.

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've only just come into this thread, as I had my first go at Orca
> yesterday with the aid of a sighted colleague.  From a basis of very
> little experience, I'm guessing that Orca isn't loading automatically
> when you boot up.  The music you get when the machine finishes booting
> is a Ubuntu feature, not an Orca one.  The process we used to start
> Orca, was to wait for the sound to play, then to press ALT-2, which
> brings up the list of available applications.  If you then type orca,
> and hit return, at least in the case of the distribution disk we used,
> Orca should come up.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tim Pennick 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
> Sent: 11 December 2008 16:48
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Re: Older Computers and New Speech Engines 
> 
> "Martin" writes:
> > Have you had someone verify for you that Orka is indeed being loaded 
> > after the successful boot up?
> > Do you have a USB sound device kicking around?  Maybe it could detect 
> > that.
> 
> 	Excellent questions. I haven't had anybody look at the screen
> yet. The boot process when Orca is loading is about 7 or
> 8 minutes long. You can hear the CDROM loading lots of files during that
> time and the demo on blindcooltech played that same chord just before
> the speech saying "Welcome to Orca" started.
> 
> 	Also, afterward, the disk starts up every time I bring a finger
> over the mouse pad and move it around.
> 
> 	The USB sound card idea is a good suggestion. Thanks.
> 
> Martin
> 
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