Speech help

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Kyle,

Thank you for the recommendations. 

Kyle wrote:
> I would recommend speech-dispatcher and Orca. You can install the MATE
> desktop and the lightdm gtk greeter, drop in a config file that I can send
> and run a couple of gsettings commands, and his system will speak. There is
> a repository I believe for RHVoice, which ships with a speech-dispatcher
> module. RHVoice, especially the bdl voice, tends to be easier to understand
> than espeak. The MATE desktop I mention does ship with the menu that will
> help in selecting applications to run and also configuring and shutting down
> the system.
> 
> 
> The best mail client is either Thunderbird or Seamonkey mail. I haven't been
> able to get sylpheed working with Orca, and evolution, which I rather like,
> does have some webkit-gtk problems that keep it from working 100%. I would
> stay away from Mutt personally. I gave up on configuring it to work with
> existing mailbox configurations that were not stored on the local machine.
> It really is a bear to set up if you have a regular IMAP mailbox. Orca just
> reads Thunderbird and Seamonkey much better as well, since you have access
> to navigation keys, SayAll mode that will read a message continuously from
> the top or from where your cursor is all the way to the bottom, and of
> course simple arrow navigation that will read your message line by line
> similar to reading it in a text editor or web browser. These clients also
> handle links without issues.
> 
> 
> For browsing, Firefox works out of the box, and Chromium works as well, but
> does need some startup flags to be set in order to make Orca read it. That
> said, modifying Chromium's startup flags seems to work the best here. It
> seems much faster and less sluggish, and I have been able to get it working
> with more websites, especially conferencing and phone types of things.
> Online banking does seem to work slightly better using Firefox, but pages
> seem to load much more slowly. I do tend to keep both around just in case
> one works better than the other for a specific task. I hope some of this
> helps.
> 
> ~Kyle
> 
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