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

[Garrett Klein <garrettklein comcast net>]

Luke,

Sounds like your sound card hates espeak, I've seen it happen with some 
older HP desktops. Not sure what the fix is, except maybe to use it with 
a USB sound card.

On 12/18/2009 12:43 AM, 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
>
> .pulse:
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:default-sink
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:default-source
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:device-volumes.i486-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:runtime
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:stream-volumes.i486-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm
>
> Luke
>
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