Brandon,
Check the option in orca preferences in the voice tab that says
something like speak multicase strings as words. It's
either the last option before apply, or close to it.
I just saw that you are using voxin, so there may well be some
things going on with how strings that contain mixed
characters, i.e. numbers and letters are pronounced that can't be
controled with Orca. I don't have this synth installed
anywhere at the moment and don't remember how it reacts. YOu can
look in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ibmtts.conf to see
if there's anything you can adjust that will help you. You may also
have a speechdispatcher directory in your home folder,
maybe ~/.local/share/speech-dispatcher, but for me it's
~/.config/speech-dispatcher. IIIIIIf you have the directory in
your home folder you should probably work with that copy of the
ibmtts.conf file as it will override whatever is in /etc.
Ido not understand why you can't save your files with gedit. This is
not normal. Try tabbing around and seeing how
everything looks.
There is some lag with thunderbird, especially for some message
types. YOu can try changing how the start reading
automatically option is set in the thunderbird tab of orca prefs for
thunderbird. Remember that orcakey control insert
gives you the prefs for a specific ap. Apply, and then hit OK. If it
is checked,, default I think, try unsetting it and
after saving, reopen the ap specific prefs and reset it. I don't
know why, but even using latest orca thhis still makes a
difference for some settings for me.
I think the saying of capital is also a voxin thing. Look in the
speech-dispatcher file I mentioned above for anything
related to this.
OK, I see it, maybe nothing for the string thing, so hopefully the
orca setting will help, but look at the substitution
rules and change the lines that say for example,
IbmttsKeySubstitution "en" "N" "capital N "
deleting the capital in each letter's line. Probably just putting a
# character at the beginning of each of those lines
will have the same effect as like in most scripts and configuratin
files the numbersign means the line is a comment and
that it is not to be read by the program, or if the file is the
program that it is not to be used.
YOu need to look at all of your options in both thunderbird
prefferences and account settings. Remember that some have
options with in options, so you will have to arrow down in a 2nd
column as well to see them all, sorry, no tim e to give
specific examples.
Somewhere in these is the option to enable spell checking. It's
probably in composition, but can't remember whether this
is in prefferences for sure, it may be in the account settings, i.e.
can be set differently for each mail or other
account. Anyway, once enabled you will be shown your mispelled words
when you go to send a message. You can also check a
box somewhere, probably in the same line as the automaticly spell
check setting that says something about showing
mispelled words while they are being written.
There are many settings that you may wish to customize, so I
seriously recommend going through ALL the available options
in both the menus I mentined, accounts and prefs. There's also an
option intools I think that will let you check a message
if it's not configured to do so by default. I have a reason that I
don't want to start thunderbird right now+I"m short on
time so can't check this for you right now.
Your wording is unclear regarding firefox bookmarks, but you can do
some things from the contextual menu, i.e. when on the
bookmark in question you press the menukey or shift f10 and arrow up
and down. YOu can't do everything from there, and
it's recommended to open the manager, especially if you have more
than one change to apply. YOu may be confused a bit by
how the tree structure is navigated there, at least I have at times.
I know intuitively now how to do what I need to do
almost always, but with out opening it and taking detailed notes
can't explain it clearly with confidence, and again, I'm
short on time and that would take a while. Just remember that you
will need to use both tabbing and arrowing to get at
everything. Sometimes you will see folders, and other times there
contents, but everything is certainly displayable when
you use the manager.
As for your username, my first response is, "Wow!", someone spacier
than I...lol.
You should see your user name unless you've changed how your prompt
is displayed, at least in most distros, when you open
a terminal emulator in the GUI, like spacy-user [my-computer
/some-directory]$
punctuation can vary as will spacing between distros, and you will
likely see a ~ character when you open the terminal
or console as this stands for your home-directory.
If for some odd reason the username is not shown in your prompt then
you can open /etc/shadow and look for it. There will
be a list of "users", most of which will be program names. It
usually starts with root, thin bin, and maybe daemon next.
Everything will be a service or program except for usernames. In
/etc/group you will find a somewhat longer list and down
toards the bottom in most cases you will have the username also with
a number beside it of 1000 or a bit higher in most
cases unless you've done something non-standard which I doubt or
you'd not be asking these questions.
The other file you may look at to change how things are spoken is
the speech.conf file in the speech-dispatcher irectory.
Make backup copies of any of the configuration files before you make
any changes in case you break something, or the
change doesn't have the desired effect. Just copy it back in to
place with the original name if your changes don't work as
desired. Remember you'll probably need to restart screenreaders to
hear changes.
Got to run, so hope I touched on all the important points.
If you have more questions, please tell us your orca version, what
distro/release you are using, and although in this case
it should not matter, your cpu and how much ram you have for good
measure. Again that last one won't matter for the type
of thing you are asking about, but it's just good form as for other
questions it may matter.
I'm wondering if you don't have permission to change your any files,
even in your home folder as you appear to have things
set up to auto log-in. Usually you need to enter a password to
modify files or add/delete them at some point, so if this
is not done at log-in it may be asked for when you go to save those
files that don't seem to be being saved. I don't get
why you don't hear a notification and or see the dialog where you
fill in username , and password, or at least the PW.
It's usually not a good idea to auto log-in as you'll need to enter
the info at sometime anyway, and sometimes I've heard
of other complications&or bugs that occur when things are set to
auto log-in.
Maybe fixing those capital letter pronunciation lines will help all
of your pronunciation issues with words being spelled.
If you are still having issues there maybe someone who uses the
ibmtts can help as I'm probably not going to be installing
those voices soon/do need the Spanish one sometimes though, but am
avoiding it for the moment as last I checked the
speechdispatcher version required is not up to date and
complications were common for many users.
Regards,
--
B.H.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:15:44AM -0700, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
On 07/21/2014 04:40 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
Hello,
One more question:
Sometimes in an app like firefox or the help, Orca will stop
responding to the up and down arrows.
How do I refresh orca so that it will work again? It works if
I hit
> tab or alt tab, but changing the focus doesn't work and
neither does
loading a new page.
thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs
On 07/21/2014 04:28 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
Hello,
Some really newbie questions:
1. How do I make Orca say a word rather than spelling it when
incountering a string like "test1"?
2. How can I keep Orca from saying "capital o" or "backspace
o" when
pressing shift or backspace?
3. What is the best way to navigate through thunderbird? In
windows
I just press enter on my messages and it reads all super
fast, but
here it seems to lag a lot when I do that. Hitting f6 works, but
does not do a "read all" function when I jump into the
message pane.
How can I most quickly read my messages?
4. Where is spell-check in Thunderbird located?
5. How do I save in Gedit? When I press ctrl+s Orca says
"capital s"
and jumps me into the save window. I type in a document name
like
"test1" then hit enter. Nothing happens. I then type:
"test1.txt"
and hit enter. The only thing that seemed to work is "/test1"
and
now I can't find it in my home dir.
6. How do I see the username of my computer? When trying to
log into
the console I'm asked for my user name, but I don't remember
it...
7. I'm using the elaquence synth and when arrowing through
letters I
often hear lowd pops. Is there any way to keep this from
happening?
8. Is there any way to hear the function name rather than the
keys
when I do something like ctrl s or ctrl r in an app? I know
what I'm
pressing, but don't always know what function I'm calling.
9. I can't seem to find a "read all" function, what is the key
command for read all?
10. Is there any way to add or remove folders in the bookmark
menu
in firefox without going into the bookmarks manager? I tried
going
into the bookmarks manager, adding a folder and looking at the
folder in the menu, but even though the folder was named in the
manager, it still showed "unnamed" in the bookmarks menu.
Thank you,
Brandon Keith Biggs
Hello,
I read on here that Audacity is accessible. I'm wondering how
to use
the preferences window? I need to change some key bindings in
order to
make it work on my laptop. When I hit ctrl+p the window comes
up, but I
can't tab or shift tab or arrow. I try to use the review
cursor, but
that doesn't seem to see the list of preference tabs.
How do I navigate through this preference window?
Thanks,
--
[1]Brandon Keith Biggs
References
1.http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/
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