Re: [orca-list] Anybody using DECtalk (hardware or software) with Orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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At the moment, I don't think so.  Orca presently works through
gnome-speech services and Speech Dispatcher.  Not sure if any other
systems are available.  I have heard of people using emacspeak servers
and one of them might work with DEC Talk USB.  I would like to see
OpenTTS be worked up to include some external synthesizer support and
I believe that OpenTTS will be the way to go in the future.  Reminder
that OpenTTS will be the future replace ment of Speech Dispatcher.  We
have some work to do to get Orca to recognize the new name but I think
we should head that way instead of sticking with whatever Brailcom
might fiddle with in the future.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:28:58AM -0500, Alex H. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking of getting the DECtalk USB, as I
> don't have a serial port, and the USB is probably more readily
> available. Can Orca/Emacspeak/speakup use that?
> Thanks
>
> Alex
>
> On 4/13/10, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> > David E. Price <deprice cs utah edu> wrote:
> >
> > > However, my memory is that it got a little squirrely if you used it with
> > > > Orca under gnome and emacspeak running in a console. Things would lock up
> > > > if you tried to use emacspeak from within gnome when Orca was running.
> > > > So,
> > > > I use my DECTalk with emacspeak in a console and a number of different
> > > > software synthesizers with Orca.
> >
> > To avoid these conflicts, you could run Emacs with Emacspeak inside Gnome.
> > You
> > might have to write a little script to tell Orca to turn off when focus is
> > in
> > an Emacs window, however.
> >
> > As an aside, I was browsing Emacs documentation and noticed a manual entry
> > about DBUS support under Emacs. Given that the entire desktop accessibility
> > infrastructure is moving to DBUS, this could raise interesting
> > opportunities.
> >
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