Re: Gnopernicus on a Live CD?

[b duvigneau hccnet nl]

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Hi,

On 17 Feb 2005 at 15:12, Peter Korn wrote:

>   1. The default volume level for my laptop was too low; consider setting
>      it higher

I have tested your live CD on a laptop too, but for me the volume levels were ok.

>   2. The default Festival speech speech is kinda slow; consider setting it
>      higher (something like rate=188 or some such).

I agree, it could we somewhat faster. But, we need to watch out with the speed of the synth. 
One of the targetgroups of this CD is new users who doesn't have any experience with 
linux/gnome or festival. So, at a higher speed, it could be difficult to understand the speech 
easily for this people.

>   4. I didn't find brltty on the system.  Is it there?  That is an important
>      addition (even though it boots directly to GNOME, enough people will
>      want console access; also acces to the larger number of Braille devices
>      that BrlTTY provides via BrlAPI).

I totally agree, but we have to find some way of specifying the correct device and port at 
boottime. In the accessible version of the debian-installer or knoppix, for example, you can do 
this on the boot: prompt. But the ubuntu live cd has some graphical boot menu and I don't 
know if there's still a real prompt involved in the boot process there.

>   9. The first couple of times I ran Gnopernicus,  it wasn't speaking very
>      much.  I got character echo, window switch events, and group membership
>      when tabbing (e.g. in the gnome-at-preferences dialog, tabbing through it
>      I'd get "Support"and "Applications" spoken, but not 'checkbox Enable
>      assistive technologies' or the buttons or anything.  It felt like an
>      older Festival bug that I thought was fixed by now, having to do with
>      speech callbacks and the like.  Running Gnopernicus a third time, I
>      didn't experience these problems.  Wierd...

I had kind of the same problems... gnopernicus started and it said "create window desktop", 
but a sighted person told me that the gnopernicus window was on the screen at that time and 
thatit was active. I didn't get any create window event from the speech, and when I tabbed 
around it just said nothing. When I wanted to play around with the gnome desktop, speech just 
kept silent. I restarted gnopernicus a few times, but it didn't help at all. It's indeed a weird 
problem, but I haven't any thoughts on how we can fix this.
 
> Again, very cool!

Yes, if it works for me, it will be very cool! 

Keep up the good work,

Bram

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