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

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am So 17. Feb 2008 um 16:49:19 schrieb Bob Tinney <tinneyb charter net>:
> I installed pythom speechd and it didn't make speech dispatcher available in 
> the orca preferences.  When I rebooted, I lost all speech.  I then tried to 
> install alsa and that didn't help.  I can still load and shut down Ubuntu, 
> but no speech.
> Any ideas anyone?  I am back in Windows XP until I get this one figured out, 
> but I'd really like to get Ubuntu working so that I can eventually switch to 
> Linux and dump windows altogether.

Are you using speech only? If not, what does your braille display show?
Do:
sudo apt-get install python-speechd
Restart Orca, and go to the speech tab in the preferences dialog. 
Besides Gnome-speech as speech server, there should be 
Speech-dispatcher; open the list by pressing space bar. Is it there? If 
so, press space bar again, and tab to the "apply" button; press it. Is 
speech now there? If so, make further adjustments and go to "OK".
Note: Due to the fact that Gnome-speech doesn't use Alsa by default, you 
don't have speech till you switched to SD. 
If you don't have a braille display or cannot use a magnifier, I fear 
you will need some sighted help: Don't know any workaround for that, 
because I'm a braille user.
Hermann

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