Re: [orca-list] Orca Misbehaviors in Wheezy

["John G. Heim" <john johnheim com>]

Espeakup works. It's just that orca  trashes it. You can prevent that by 
configuring speech-dispatcher to use alsa or by configuring espeakup to 
use pulse.

We just had a discussion a few weeks ago about how to recompile espeakup 
to use pulse. You should be able to google that. I got 
speech-dispatcher to use alsa by running spd-conf. IIRC, that utility, 
spd-conf is part of the python-speechd package. It is not part of the 
speech-dispatcher package.

Configuring speech-dispatcher to use alsa may lead to stability 
problems. I've been using orca 3.4.2 in debian wheezy for about a week 
but it crashes several times a day. I have found that killing the 
speech-dispatcher process fixes the problem. Orca apparently sees that 
the speech-dispatcher process it was talking to has died and restarts it.

but I have to kill speech-dispatcher several times a day.

On 03/25/14 15:34, mattias wrote:
> First
> How do you get espeakup work in wheezy?
> If you try you only get a lot lot of errors in the console
>
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] För Hunter Jozwiak
> Skickat: den 24 mars 2014 19:43
> Till: Christopher J Chaltain
> Kopia: orca-list gnome org
> Ämne: Re: [orca-list] Orca Misbehaviors in Wheezy
>
>
> What is a good solution for the control key issue? Turning off espeakup
> helped with the first issue.
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> > On Mar 24, 2014, at 12:45, Christopher J Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like Speakup is starting to read the contents of the
> > console to you. Do you have Speakup installed and working on this
> > system? This is how Vinux 3.2 used to behave. It's true that the
> > control key didn't stop speech, but you could log on and start using
> > the desktop before Speakup finished speaking. It was just a bit
> > difficult to listen to Orca over Speakup.
> >
> > > On 3/24/2014 11:23 AM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > When I boot up my system, I get a bunch of gobbledegook such as
> > > services starting and what not before I can use my machine. I can't
> > > shut up my speech with control key. Nor does this work in normal
> > > usage. Suggestions?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Hunter
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Christopher (CJ)
> > Chaltain at Gmail
> >
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> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> _______________________________________________
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> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The
> manual is at
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
>
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> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp

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