Re: Orca testing...

["Cody Hurst" <cdog2005 gmail com>]

hi will,

  I will certainly read up on some Python, but it will take a while
for me to come up with any real useful scripts if  I get that far. By
that time you'll already be 10 steps ahead of me and an even better
project there. It sounds like we've got a nice project here as I have
mentioned before. When I get it to work (as I haven't put much effort
into it last time) I will give you any feed back/tips i can to help.

  I have done a google on Eloquence for linux, and so far I've found
sdk's, but they cost over $2,000, I'll stick with festival!!

Cody

On 3/15/06, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> >   Remember you had tried to help me. I was the one using FC3 and you
> > had mentioned that you hadn't had any luck with that.
>
> Now I remember!
>
> >   You say orca does pretty good with most gtk aps. Which are some of
> > the most accessible ones.
>
> The overall desktop menus work well, and we've had good experience
> with at least:
>
> nautilus
> gcalctool
> GAIM
> GEdit
> gnome-terminal
> Evolution
> ...
>
> I'll bring up various other GNOME/GTK+ apps from time to time and
> also find that they work well with Orca.  Our focus right now,
> however, is to get fundamental office productivity applications
> working first.
>
> > I hear gaim is really nice. Will I be able
> > to use open office with it, although that is ot a gtk ap...
>
> We're working on OpenOffice right now and we're also collaborating
> with IBM on designing a solution for Firefox.
>
> >   As far as speech goes, how does it sound, and is it enjoyable?
>
> Orca uses gnome-speech for its speech support.  Since gnome-speech is
> merely a framework that sits on top of other speech engines, the
> sound of Orca depends primarily upon which speech engine you use
> rather than Orca itself.  We've done a lot of work with FreeTTS and
> DECtalk, both of which are available across a large variety of
> platforms.
>
> > I'm
> > so used to jaws for windows (yes sad to say I'm still using it) but I
> > really enjoy it. That is why I asked if there was eloquence for orca
> > or linux in general, because I like listening to that voice.
>
> There are also gnome-speech drivers for Festival, Eloquence, and
> IBMTTS (ViaVoice).
>
> > When FC5 is released, I don't see why it wouldn't work, although I
> > might try gnopernicus 1.0. I realize that orca is still a project at
> > work, but I still want to keep up on it. I was kind of really wishing
> > for a jaws for linux type ap, but I'll take what I can get... I'm also
> > starting to learn a bit of python so I might contribute to the
> > scripting pile, but maybe not for a while.
>
> Our experiences show that we're having much better luck with Ubuntu
> than Fedora.  In addition, you might also try using OpenSolaris at
> some point.  Much of our team is developing on Solaris at the moment,
> and we'll update the Orca QUICKSTART document <http://cvs.gnome.org/
> viewcvs/*checkout*/orca/QUICKSTART> as things such as GNOME 2.14 are
> available for download on this platform.
>
> Having you develop scripts for applications would be a very valuable
> thing, and I look forward to your participation in this open source
> effort.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Will
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