Older Computers and New Speech Engines

[Jude DaShiell]

Please, try orca -s since that will allow you to set orca preferences one 
of which is to start orca after every login.  Better yet if this gets done 
in the root account.  There are some other bugs which can be gotten around 
by downloading and installing vinux distribution since that was built 
without those bugs in it that make setting up accessibility difficult.On 
Fri, 12 Dec 2008, tim.pennick at bt.com wrote:

> 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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