Re: [orca-list] Potential conflict between Orca and emacspeak with hardware synth

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi, Tomas,

Thanks for the pointer--I'll take a look. However, I can get emacspeak and 
Orca working well together in an X session if both are using software 
synthesizers. I love the feedback I get from emacspeak when I'm coding or 
creating a LaTeX document. My problem at the moment is that I love the 
speech quality from my DECTalk Express much more than the software 
synts--call me old fashioned. ;-)

dave


From: "Tomas Cerha" <cerha brailcom org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Potential conflict between Orca and emacspeak with 
hardware synth


> Hello David,
>
> JFYI, you can also try speechd-el instead of emacspeak.  It uses Speech
> Dispatcher and thus works smoothly together with Orca.  See
> http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-el for more information.
>
> Best regards, Tomas
>
> David E. Price wrote:
> > I made your suggested change to the user-settings.py file, and the reset
> > strings are no longer sent to my DECTalk Express when I start Orca
> > Properties. Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem that
> > originated this thread. If I start emacspeak and then try to switch to
> > another application with Orca running, everything freezes.  I either
> > have to kill emacspeak, Orca, or restart the X server to get things
> > running again.
> >
> > I'll put this question out on the emacspeak list and see if anyone has
> > found a workaround.