Older Computers and New Speech Engines

[Jude DaShiell]

You might try an accessibility gesture hit control-s just once after the 
music stops and see if orca starts talking.



On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Marian Selea wrote:

> 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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