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Re: [orca-list] dealing with gnome-shell on new system

Thanks for correcting my msg on the spd-say command, Peter.  I was using speech to text on my iPhone as I was 
on the go and didn't notice it got that wrong.  Apologies.

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vágner [mailto:pvdeejay gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:23 AM
To: Don Raikes; Alex Midence; kendell clark
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] dealing with gnome-shell on new system

Hello,
Are you running pulseaudio or have you removed or prevented it from starting for a good reason?
Can you hear beeps through your sound card as you navigate to the start / end of a line in gnome terminal? 
i.e. after starting gnome terminal do multiple presses of the left and down arrow key cause that beeping 
sound to play?
Are you running this on desktop or on a laptop? Does this have multimedia keys so you can try just increasing 
sound volume if it has been inadvertently muted or is currently being set into a verry low level to be 
audible?
Can you just try using espeak through the gnome terminal e.g.
espeak hello

This are some questions from the top of my head to be able to decide what to do next. If you are using pulse 
audio then most likelly your sound is just muted. If you have no way to turn it up using the multimedia keys, 
you might try from the terminal Do you have multiple sound devices? If not then the following commands might 
be helpfull. You can even do this remotelly via SSH pactl set-sink-mute 0 0 pactl set-sink-volume 0 60%

If this does not work then you can see list of devices pulseaudio is seeing pacmd list-sinks | more They are 
indexed and you can replace the device index in the commands above where I have put 0 so if you are about to 
unmute pulseaudio sink numbered 1 you would instead do pactl set-sink-mute 1 0

If you are running with pulseaudio disabled or stopped then you need to tweak speech-dispatcher configuration 
not to use pulseaudio but to use alsa instead.
I have always been doing this by manually editing a file /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
In this file there is a line like this
# AudioOutputMethod "pulse"
You would need to change this into
AudioOutputMethod "alsa"

There is also utility app to change the configuration of speech-dispatcher called spd-conf however I have 
never use that.
One more hint. If espeak hello inside a gnome terminal works and you do know you are not running pulseaudio 
then you are sure you need to change speech-dispatcher output module configuration to alsa. This is because 
by default espeak either uses pulseaudio or alsa depending on what's available.

Greetings

Peter

On 12.08.2015 at 07:46 Don Raikes wrote:

So running spd-say hello gives me nothing  no sound no error messages nothing.
I did this from within a gnome-terminal.

So how do  I go about debugging speech-dispatcher?
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vágner [mailto:pvdeejay gmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:01 PM
To: Alex Midence; kendell clark
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] dealing with gnome-shell on new system

Hello,
Just little note to add. I think correct command to diagnose 
speech-dispatcher is spd-say hello

Greetings

Peter

On 12.08.2015 at 02:47 Alex Midence wrote:

Sounds like a problem with speech dispatcher. Orca appears to be running. Since you're getting braille 
feedback Type control alt T. And type -say ' Hello' .if you do not get any sound, then you have identified 
 your problem and need to troubleshoot speech dispatcher.

Sent from my iPhone


On Aug 11, 2015, at 7:25 PM, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:

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hi
Gnome shell 3.14 is definitely usable with orca. What you might have 
to do is to turn the desktop icons back on in gnome tweak tool. For 
some reason they're off by default. I don't know whether kali linux 
has a mate version, and if not you'll have to install the mate 
desktop from teh kali repos. After this is done just select the mate 
session in gdm and you're good to go.
Thanks
Kendell clark


Don Raikes wrote:

Hello,

I just installed the latest version of kali linux (debian 
derrative). When I boot into the system, I have a couple of 
problems.

1. I am getting no sound out of orca. I am getting Braille feedback 
but no speech.

2.Unfortunately kali is using the new gnome-shell which seems to be 
almost impossible to use with orca.

Is there an easy way to deal with this gnome-shell desktop?

Gnome-shell 3.14.2-3

Gnome-orca 3.14.0

Is switching to mate a viable alternative, and how difficult is it 
to get everything working in mate?

-- Sincerely, Donald

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Specialist / Security Penetration Tester

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http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
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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 
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