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

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Another way around this might be to open up gnome-terminal and issue:
orca -t
which uses the default speech, and you can reconfigure it to use speech 
dispatcher.
If it still doesnt speak, you can just do orca -t to reconfigure to 
normal speech driver and sort out the problem.

Hope this helps

Jon
On Sun 17/02/2008 at 17:27:28, Hermann wrote:
> 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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