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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Thomas,

 You must've had quite a time of it there.   I remember when I had a 
similar problem back on a 10.04 installation.  I resolved never ever to 
find myself in a situation where I might lose my speech.  Here are the 
steps I took in case you find them helpful:

Overall philosophy:   Do *not* have speech dispatcher as your one and 
only speech server.  It breaks down, everything breaks down.

1.  Install gnome-speech.  I know it's deprecated but it's nice to have 
in a pinch.
2.  Install Festival as a backup to e-speak and make it the default 
choice for gnome-speech.  Again, not a good alternative to espeak as a 
primary but it's great when the chips are down adn you lose e-speak for 
some reason.
3.  Install Emacspeak and get it working either with flite or espeak.  
If you lose speech in console or x, you need a talking shell of some 
kind.  Emacs has a mode that you can use for that.
4.  Install Yasr as a backup console screen reader.  (not sure how 
workable that is these days.  I haven't gotten it to work since Maverick.)

Anyway, you build redundancies upon redundancies.   It may seem silly 
and a bit of overkill to you until you have it happen to you and the 
prospect of reinstallation is too painful to bear.

Glad to know you got her talking again.
Best regards,
Alex M

On 06/27/2013 03:37 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 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.
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