Re: [orca-list] orca and Hardy - no speech - ibmTTS dependancy

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Yes, to confirm, orca is not doing anything when started. Sighted person 
says that from the terminal its not producing any output, just hanging till 
killed.
Also, test-speech does give me output with various sythesizers including 
IBMTTS which was set as my default in 7.10.  I did remove ~/.orca hoping 
that it if wasn't able to load IBMTTS then it would fall back to espeak, but 
this didn't solve anything either.

Anything else I should try?

Thanx for all your help.
-- Rich

I downloaded the most recent version via svn update from the the sources I 
had and built it:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

everything compiled fine.

Before I did this, I had the last version which worked on 7.10 installed.

Maybe I have to go back and download and build atspi, gale, and atk? I 
dunno.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hunt" <huntp ukonline co uk>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca and Hardy - no speech - ibmTTS dependancy


> Hi,
>
> In Rich's case though Orca is not even saying the welcome message (as I
> understand it) so I question whether it's an AT-SPI problem.  It's odd 
> that
> in his case Orca is neither speaking or producing any error messages (it
> would produce error messages if it was an AT-SPI problem wouldn't it?).
> Since all it's doing is sitting there until a control + C to kill it makes
> me assume it's just crashing straight away.  That's why I suggested a
> reinstall - of a stable version e.g. 2.22.0
>
> I do think that any mechanism whereby Orca could inform the user about
> missing essential processes for accessibility that are not working would 
> be
> a good thing though.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Paul Hunt" <huntp ukonline co uk>
> Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca and Hardy - no speech - ibmTTS dependancy
>
>
> > Hi All:
> >
> > Something tells me this might be an AT-SPI infrastructure issue.  I
> > realize this isn't the most accessibility-friendly test to ask you to 
> > try,
> > but if you have easy access to sighted assistance to run "accerciser", 
> > the
> > GUI *should* list a number of apps in the left column. If no apps appear,
> > then it seems like the AT-SPI infrastructure is not starting.
> >
> > This makes me wonder if we should add a "--list-apps" feature to Orca
> > and/or accerciser to just output the list of known apps in the AT-SPI
> > infrastructure.  This would serve as a quick check to tell if things seem
> > OK along that front.
> >
> > Will
>
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