Re: [orca-list] some questions about Orca

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Harold,

Some answers below.

  On 5/23/2012 2:20 PM, Harold wrote:

"Coming from jaws and voice over some of the language is different in 
the Orca manual.  What is flat review used for?"

Flat review is similar to the Jaws cursor or Invisible cursor. You are 
able to review areas of the screen not accessible through tabbing around 
the screen or  via the normal arrow keys, and can act as a virtual mouse.

  "Is there a say all command for Orca, I thought it was Orca ; but 
this does not work."

Yes. For full sized keyboards use the plus key on the numpad. If you are 
using a laptop you can use the capslock key with the semi-colon.

"How do I change the synthesizer?  I tried installing Festival but it 
does not come up in the list of choices under Preferences."

That's probably because it is commented out by default in your 
speech-dispatcher configuration. If you go into your speech-dispatcher 
conf file and uncomment the line for Festival support it should show up 
in Orca preferences as an optional synth. However, be advised that 
Festival has some issues with pulse audio, and will require some playing 
around with it to get it to work with Orca on newer Linux operating systems.

Cheers!