Re: [orca-list] I think my installed Ubuntu and Orca is just plain unstable...

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Hermann wrote:

> am So 17. Feb 2008 um 10:08:01 schrieb Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>:
> [...]
> > > The problem is Gnome-Speech. It does not work with Alsa. All the players
> >
> > What? If you use the default espeak voice with orca (espeak-gnome-driver)
> > you can use alsa.
> >
> > Why not follow:
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-fa7c4a1
> >           003d03c083f07a9f42e97c6c76c9110e9
>
> OK, haven't tested it, but what about Linux beginners? But there's still
> the alternative with Speech-dispatcher.

Its not that complicated, but yes.
How do I setup orca  with speech-dispatcher out of curiosity?

> > > For work, I cannot do on a text console, I use sometimes Ubuntu, but
> > > mostly Windows. And I guess this situation will last for a while :-(
> >
> > Totally disagree!
> > I haven't used windows for ages. You don't really need it with a
> > combination of both gui and cli.
>
> What about OCR? I don't know whether you need that, but I do, and there's
> no alternative to Windows.

No i don't need that. But I am sure there is something around on 
sourceforge or something.
I will have a look anyway and hopefully I can find a text-based one...

> [...]
> > But why can't they run under wine is my question.
> > Orca doesn't need to speak.
>
> Tested Wine only briefly, seems complicated; so why use Wine, when you
> have to use Windows sometimes?

Well because in my case I don't have a windows box to use.
And it would be nice if they ran on linux.
Even though I don't play audio games...

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Daniel Dalton

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