Re: looking for a program....

[Gary Kline <kline thought org>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:37:17PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:37:17 -0700
> From: Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>
> Subject: Re: looking for a program....
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
>
> On 02/16/2012 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > I'm quite sure that what you're looking for is for some screen reader &
> > > speech synthesis solution, like Orca [1], isn't it?
> > > If not, or Orca doesn't fit your needs, you can deal with speech-dispatcher
> > > in a easy way from your application. Controlling what to say, pitch, rate,
> > > language, etc.
>
> Orca is not what you are looking for.  Orca is a screen reader to assist
> the blind and seeing-impaired.
>
> It is not there to act as a voice for a person who cannot speak, though
> I suppose it could be used as such, but that is not its primary purpose.
>
>
> >     i spent the entire day looking for what WAS in ubuntu 10.04
> >     and 10.10, but must have changed with 11.*.  it has a config 
> >     panel when the program began that let you set things such as
> >     you mention: pitch, rate, volume, ... but this program is no
> >     longer available.
> >
> >     I installed a bunch of what i thought might be helpful
> >     tools, and now  when i run VBC, I get the following
> >     warnings:
>
> The warnings are probably harmless to your VBC program, though they
> indicate something isn't quite right with the screen reader stuff
> installed.  Hopefully others can shed light on how to fix these messages
> that will probably come up when trying to run any GTK program.  You
> might try logging out and back in, or rebooting.  It could be that the
> daemons required to implement the screen reader just aren't loaded yet.


        synaptic was also broke--i tried to install the missing
        packages that way (and thru apt-get).  to solve the synaptic
        issue took quite awshile and involved pasting a string of
        commands that only a ubuntu genius could grok.  after that,
        tho, my VBC  ran just fine.

        nutshell: [??]

        ...and now back to my options quandry!

         
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