Re: [orca-list] Need Help Getting my Speech Back

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi all,

Please disregard this last post. I finally got Orca speaking again
after removing the offending package, and resetting the default
settings. Not sure what happened, but needless to say I am writing
from my Linux system using Orca now. :D

Cheers!

On 6/27/13, Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running a system with Ubuntu 12.04.2 and Orca 3.4.2, and I think
> I must have done something to mess up my copy of Orca because it no
> longer will speak to me. All I did was install the speechd-up package,
> hoping to get Speakup working, restarted and now Orca is dead as a
> hammer. it won't speak no matter what I do and neither will Speakup.
> What can i do to get my speech back. I'm in a panic because that drive
> has several GB of stuff on it and if I have to reinstall Ubuntu from
> scratch not only am I going to be irate I'm going to loose a lot of
> stuff for absolutely no reason. So can someone tell me if there is a
> quick and easy fix for this problem?
>
> thanks.