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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Rich:

I'm not remembering 100% of the picture right now (I'm tired), so I 
might be missing a simple app that you can run to test the 
infrastructure.  If you build the at-spi stuff from trunk, though, the 
'test' subdirectory has some test applications in it.  The 'at' test 
starts off by listing the known applications -- you could run that, see 
what the output is, and then Ctrl+C to kill it.

Rich Caloggero wrote:
> 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.

OK.  Bummer.  Very frustrating.  :-(

> 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?

If test-speech is working, then it almost rules gnome-speech issues out 
as a possibility.  I wouldn't be 100% confident, but pretty close.

> 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

Ahhh...the latest Orca requires the latest infrastructure.  But, you 
also need to remember you're working on the edge when you grab the 
latest stuff.  So, you might get burned.  Just a note of warning since 
some people get lulled into a false sense of security sometimes.

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

These would be good to build/install.  When building at-spi, remember to 
pass --libexecdir as appropriate to autogen.sh.  Otherwise, you could 
screw things up.

Will