RE: Orca Ibmtts viavoice

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Juan:

Thanks for the kind words.  The configuration GUI for Orca is not
complete yet.  We hope to get *something* available soon.   For now, you
need to hand edit ~/.orca/user-settings.py.

In general, we're trying to keep the specific interface and keystrokes
for Orca to a minimum.  That is, we don't want to have to require users
to learn a whole bunch of special Orca keystrokes in order to be able to
use the machine.  Instead, Orca will follow your keyboard focus around
the display and present things to you.  

But, we do realize the need to do some exploring and some control of
Orca using the keyboard.  For this, we've generally taken over the
numeric keypad and have also chosen to use the "Insert" key as the Orca
modifier.  If you want to explore around the keyboard, you can enter
Orca's learn mode by pressing Insert+F1.  When you enter learn mode,
Orca will consume all keyboard events and will tell you what action the
key combination you've pressed will do.  To exit learn mode, press the
escape key.

You can also visit the Orca web site and WIKI for more information:

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

Hope this helps,

Will



On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:04 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> Great, thanks.  I got orca up and running.
>
> My first impressions are, I really like this much more than gnopernicus.
> One queston, does orca have a controlpannel to be ab le to change settings?
> If yes how do I access it?
>
> Also, is there a guide on the commands for orca?  
>
> Thanks.
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> Behalf Of Willie Walker
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:44 PM
> To: Orca screen reader developers
> Subject: RE: Orca Ibmtts viavoice
>
> Hi Juan:
>
> With respect to gnome-speech, the Java support is needed to build the
> gnome-speech driver for FreeTTS.  If you don't a a need for this, the the
> gnome-speech build should work fine without the Java access bridge.
>
> Will
>
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:28 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> >  One other thing, I noticed when building gnome-speech, that there was 
> > java support, is this for accessability?  If it is, how do I get it to 
> > recognize my java access bridge?
> >
> > thanks
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] 
> > On Behalf Of Willie Walker
> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 3:46 AM
> > To: Orca screen reader developers
> > Subject: Re: Orca Ibmtts viavoice
> >
> > Hi Juan:
> >
> > You should be able to do this in three meta steps:
> >
> >   o Obtain/install IBMTTS from IBM
> >   o Build gnome-speech, enabling the IBMTTS driver
> >   o Run orca-setup and choose the IBMTTS driver
> >
> > Hope this helps, and the same instructions apply if you want to use 
> > the Fonix DECtalk voices,
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 03:00 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> > > How do I get orca to use ibmtts viavoice?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > >
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