Re: Orca troubbles by running orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Sebastian:

Welcome!  Can you try running test-speech to see if you can get speech
working?  In addition, Debian is currently a troublesome beast for
accessibility on Linux.  People are working on improving it (yeah!), but
you might try Ubuntu Edgy if you're not wedded to Debian.

Will

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:00 +0100, Sebastian Dellit wrote:
> Hoppa orca readers,
>
> I'm Sebastian and 25 years old. One of my hobby's since 2004 is linux.
>
> I run a computer with Debian etch (amd64) and try to run orca, but it
> doesn't work. :-(
>
> I compiled the orca 2.17.3 Sourcen and the following happens:
>
> sdellit server:~$ orca
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 721, in __speak
> return speaker.say(text)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 100, in say
> return self.gnome_speaker.say(text)
> COMM_FAILURE
> Restarting speech...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 721, in __speak
> return speaker.say(text)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 100, in say
> return self.gnome_speaker.say(text)
> COMM_FAILURE
> Restarting speech...
> Something looks wrong with speech.  Aborting.
> sdellit server:~$
> sdellit server:~$ orca -t
> Willkommen bei den Orca-Einstellungen.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 941, in _show
> PreferencesConsole
> module.showPreferencesUI()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca_console_prefs.py", line
> 340, in showPreferencesUI
> if not setupSpeech(prefsDict):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca_console_prefs.py", line
> 223, in setupSpeech
> speechVoiceChoice)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca_console_prefs.py", line
> 76, in sayAndPrint
> speechServer.speak(text, acss)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 748, in speak
> self.__speak(text, acss, interrupt)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 696, in __speak
> speaker = self.__getSpeaker(acss)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 376, in __getSpeaker
> voices = self.__driver.getAllVoices()
> COMM_FAILURE
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1358, in main
> init(registry)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1023, in init
> loadUserSettings()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 812, in loadU
> serSettings
> speech.shutdown()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/speech.py", line 222, in shu
> tdown
> __speechserver.shutdownActiveServers()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 248, in shutdownActiveServers
> server.shutdown()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 904, in shutdown
> speaker.stop()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
> 103, in stop
> self.gnome_speaker.stop()
> CORBA.COMM_FAILURE
> sdellit server:~$
>
> Can everybody help me?
>
> Thanks and