Re: [orca-list] accessible daisy player software

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

The link I gave for idair is to a binary which seem to work ok.
Last time I tried to compile from source, it would not work.
I have had one or two seg-faults, but mostly idair works for me.
I did not have the replay problem.
I am not saying it is good, just sharing my experience.


On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I messed with idair some and ran into a lot of seg fault problems with it.  I
> did start working on it some to correct the navigation keys; they were
> backwards from what I could tell so switched them around.  I left it alone for
> a while now because in addition I found that the program kept replaying
> buffers of audio so it appeared to be stuck.  I'm rather disappointed that
> there isn't a decent Daisy player for linux that actually works.  I can't get
> listen-up to play any book I have access to.  After my Victor Reader Stream
> came in the mail last year, I've pretty much given up on finding a decent
> linux daisy player.
>
> Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > There is idair which works for daisy 2002 but it is console-based.
> > There is also listen-up, but that would not play modern books.
> > I have never tried, but I think idair should work from a gnome terminal.
> > You can find idair from:
> > http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/idair/idair-0.8.3.linux.bin.tgz
> > Listen-up is available from: http://linux-speakup.org/listenup.html
> > There is another project on sourceforge called DaisyDelight, written in
> > python which has a lot of potential.
> > I made it work under Linux but it is not ready for use yet.
> > It has a basic text interface and a tk interface.
> > It would be relatively easy to give it another interface.
> > The problem is for now, that it does not go into the lower levels of a book,
> > so you would just hear the contents, forward and cover information and not
> > the actual contents of the book.
> > HTH, Willem
> >  
> >
> > On Thu, 19 ://://Jun 2008, Aruni Sharma wrote:
> >
> >   
> > > Hi, ­­Is there any free daisy layer software for gnome which is
> > > accessible with orca?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Aruni.
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