Re: [orca-list] does orca work with gnustep apps?

[Derek Roberts <bigd vi guy gmail com>]

Hey Steve and all,

Steve, you rock!!! I renamed portaudio.h to portaudio.h.old, renamed
portaudio19.h to portaudio.h and reinstalled, it works perfectly!
Too bad about gnustep. So there are people working on qt? Last I saw
on qt accessibility  was from a few years ago, but I haven't really
kept track lol.

Thanks again!

On 2/4/10, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:
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> Sorry, that's portaudio; goddamn, I hate typos like this; this can
> really screw somebody up when trying to give them specific
> instructions.
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> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:53:08PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Sorry for continuing the seeming off topicness but espeak is used with
> > both gnome-speech and with Speech-Dispatcher, the speech engine
> > replacement for Orca in the next major release.
> >
> > When compiling espeak, check the #include of protaudio.h; there is a
> > header for version 18, which uses OSS and version 19, which uses
> > ALSA.  So what you want to do is take and 'cp portaudio19.h
> > protaudio.h'
> >
> > I hope I got the names of those headers right.  This is also discussed
> > in the INSTALL notes too.  Try that and make sure portaudio is
> > installed on your system also and see how the compile goes.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:25:01PM -0500, Derek Roberts wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > The subject pretty much says it. I was looking around and noticed
> > > something they're developing at gnu.org called GnuStep. It's supposed
> > > to be a free implementation of cocoa, the graphical thing used on the
> > > mac. I was wondering if this Gnustep works with orca?
> > >
> > > Also, a bit off subject, but a couple weeks ago, I tried compiling and
> > > installing the latest eSpeak. Unfortunately, I think the precompiled
> > > portaudio is trying to use the oss sound driver, not alsa. So unless I
> > > use the aoss command, I get no speech. I've found a way to get output
> > > from programs by redirrecting the standard in and out to espeak, but
> > > is there a way to fix this? I found spd-say produces speech, but at
> > > the moment I have orca set to use gnome speech services and "orca -t
> > > 2> /dev/stdout | aoss espeak --stdin" doesn't get me a talking setup.
> > > Or if this is the wrong list, can someone give me the subscribe
> > > address for the right one?
> > >
> > > Thanks, a slightly frustrated Big D. Having to use vista sucks!
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