Re: Orca and Firevox

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

Hi.

I also see the problem of read to end now working when I use Orca for
speech output.  I've never had freeTTS working on any of my Linux
installs, so can't help.

If you want to switch Firefox 2.0 into a self voicing app, you can cp
the self_voicing.py script into your ~/.orca dir and rename it to
firefox.py.  Be aware that this will cause loss of access to some
dialogs in Firefox 2.0.  It didn't fix the read to end problem, so I
decided access to all Firefox 2.0 dialogs was more important.

          Kenny

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:03:16PM +0100, Hermann wrote:
> Hello,
> I use Firefox 2.x together with the extension Firevox, which works 
> pretty well, except one issue:
> Firevox contains a function called "autoread", that means that, when 
> pressing Control+Shift+A, the whole page gets read to you.
> As speech I chose Orca.
> I wrote to Charles Chen, the developer of Firevox, and I post my message 
> and his answer here; after that I've some questions:
>
> "I installed Ubuntu 6.10, Orca 2.17.90 and Firefox 2.0.0.1 on my machine.
> The installed CLC-plugins work so far, with one exception:
> I cannot perform the autoread function. The speech starts reading some 
> words
> but then Firefox gets stuck and the speech isn't talking anymore.
> I have to restart Firefox in order to continue working.
> Is this a known bug in Firefox under Linux?"
>
> "A few questions before we go any further:
>
> 1. Have you tried doing this with Java FreeTTS?
>
> If it works with FreeTTS, but not Orca, I would chalk it up to a problem 
>   with Orca. I am dependent on the synthesis engine working properly, 
> and  if the
> synthesis engine suddenly stops accepting messages from me, there  is 
> very little that I can do about it.
>
> 2. Did you set Orca to treat Firefox as a self voicing application?
>
> If you haven't, Orca may be trying to fight Fire Vox for control; that 
> is a really bad scenario, and strange things can happen."
>
> Does anyone use Firevox either together with Orca or Free-TTS, and what 
> is your experience?
> How can I set up Orca, to treat Firefox as a selfvoicing application?
> Regards
> Hermann
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