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Re: [orca-list] Orca Misbehaviors in Wheezy

I use Wheezy with both Orca and Speakup and don't have any issues.  I
started with a netinstall and manually, painstakingly installed gnome onto
it with all suggested packages turned off.  I used aptitude to do it.  This
allowed me to not install Pulse Audio.  That made a world of difference
because there isn't a daemon out there taking it upon itself to decide when
I get sound and when I don't.  

As for getting espeakup to come up, well, it should already work by default
in a debian installation.  All I had to do in my metinstall was hit s when I
heard the beep after inserting the cd and it talked ever since.  If you
didn't do that, then you need to do the following two things:

1.  Become root.
2.  modprobe speakup_soft start=1
3.  espeakup

That should do it.  On my Ubuntu system at home, I do this from a Gnome
terminal using sudo in lieu of logging in as root and I find that espeakup
works OK with it even with Pulse Audio in the mix.  I run 13.10 in case
anyone is wondering and plan to upgrade to 14.04 as soon as its available.  

Thanks.
Alex M

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of John G.
Heim
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:10 PM
To: mattias; 'Hunter Jozwiak'; 'Christopher J Chaltain'
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca Misbehaviors in Wheezy



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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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 
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orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
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

_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
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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John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim math wisc edu
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orca-list mailing list
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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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