Re: [orca-list] urgent: Ubuntu 9.04 high-speed speech problem

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 00:43 -0500, luke Davis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have recently had to reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop, and went with 9.04.  
> Starting to regret it, since I wanted LVM, but the installer doesn't 
> include it, but that's neither here nor there.
>
> My urgent usability problem is: orca is starting when I alt-F2 and type 
> orca, but it says everything at an incomprehensible high speed, as 
> described previously on this list.
>
> I have tried the "touch ~/.pulse_a11y_nostart" solution oft-described on 
> these lists, but it had absolutely no effect.
>
> I need this laptop for a job in a few hours--are there any other solutions 
> which might be implemented, since the touch option doesn't work?
>
> an "ls .pulse*" gets:
>
> .pulse_a11y_nostart  .pulse-cookie

Firstly this is not the ubuntu accessibility mailing list so such
questions will not get answered (at least not on a *urgent* priority ).
Any ways, try using orca with gnome-speech instead of speech dispatcher.

happy hacking.
Krishnakant.