building orca under GARNOME

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Orca

        http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/

[from the orca wesite]
"is a flexible, extensible, and powerful assistive technology for people
with visual impairments. Using various combinations of speech synthesis,
braille, and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications
and toolkits that support the AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop)."



To build Orca within the GARNOME framework:

(0) set up a GARNOME "sandbox" if you not already done so...
        
        http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2006-March/msg00045.html

The sandbox provides an orderly way to perform experiments within
GARNOME. Most, but not all, applications within GARNOME support 'make
uninstall'.  By conducting experiments within a sandbox rather than
altering the standard GARNOME source tree, you have a mechanism by which
to easily retreat when necessary.

(1) unpack the attached garball in

        $top_of_garnome_source_tree/sandbox/geektoys

(2) build and install orca
* cd to sandbox/geektoys/orca
* make install > make_install.log 2>&1 &

Running orca
------------
* verify gnome-speech works

For orca to speak, gnome-speech needs to work.  To verify gnome-speech
is working, run 'test-speech'.

On my system, an FC4 clone for PPC's, gnome-speech did *not* initially
work.  The problem turned out to be an ACL issue associated with the
festival voice synthesis engine.

* configure orca
run: orca-setup

* run orca

Enjoy...

-Joseph


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