[orca-list] Archlinux and voxin

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

 Hello,
I noticed recently some people were asking about this subject. Well I 
have just tried installing voxin on archlinux and succeeded in getting 
it to work with orca.

Before I go into the detail, some of this could be simplified with 
packages in AUR or may be even an additional repository. If people would 
be interested in such a thing, I can look into doing this.

Here goes on what I did:
* From the voxin distribution, look in the packages/Debian/ folder and 
open the libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb using archive 
manager. You will find two files in there, extract the data.tar.gz file.
* Now extract the contents of the data.tar.gz file (either using archive 
manager or for those who like the command line use tar). From the files 
extracted, copy the content of usr/lib/ to /usr/lib/ (note the first one 
is a relative path where as the second is an absolute path).
* Now run the voxin installer script and answer yes to whether you agree 
with the licenses. Do not choose to install any of the drivers.
* Optionally you now can compile the speakup connector, nothing special 
needs to be done for this.
* You can get orca to use ibmtts by compiling speech-dispatcher from AUR 
(http://aur.archlinux.org). Please note if you already have 
speech-dispatcher already installed then you must recompile it now you 
have ibmtts installed so that it will build and install the ibmtts 
module. Also remember to configure speech-dispatcher, you will need to 
enable the ibmtts module by removing the hash (#) symbol from the 
beginning of the line which adds the ibmtts module. Also if you don't 
use pulseaudio remember to reconfigure the audio output or 
speech-dispatcher will fail to load modules.
* Optionally, I guess you could get voxin to work with gnome-speech by 
compiling gnome-speech from source (look at the ABS FAQ in the arch wiki 
(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_FAQ)).

Michael Whapples