Re: [orca-list] TTSynth and other returning user questions
- From: "B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>
- To: Mitchell Smith <mjs mjsmail net>, orca-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] TTSynth and other returning user questions
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 14:10:48 -0600
You have to use speech dispatcher.
I have never even heard of t-synth/can not help there.
I would use xfce if the panels were accessible, but as they are not I do not install and sometimes use it as
I once did.
Mate is the best option if you want something lighter than gnome, and even if you don't need something light
mate may be the best option for you. I
am not saying mate is better or more accessible than gnome, but it is in the same league as gnome when it
comes to usability with orca.
Both mate and gnome have some accessability bugs and which of these effect and or bother you more is
something you would have to find out for yourself.
You can get more information about the strengths of each of these as well as their short comings reading
archived posts from this list.
This top;ic has been discussed at length in more than one conversation, and I think there is little new that
can be said, so it would be best to search
the archives and then if you still have any specific doubts or questions ask about them.
Things do vary a bit between relatively recent gnome and mate versions and on different distros.
You could also install them both if you are really undecided and compare. To get best performance check in
your start up applications to make sure mate
is not starting gnome programs it does not use.
Hopefully some day somoeone will get involved with XFCE development who is knowledgeable and cares about
accessability. It seems that current developers
have done as much as they know how to. There have been no accessability improvements in XFCE in a couple of
years, speech wise anyway.
Since with Debian stable you will not have the latest version of either desktop for exact details on
accessability you need to check for the versions
that will be installed as things have varied from release to release.
The only comparison I'll give is the most fundamental one.
Mate is basically an old school menu driven environment.
Gnome is more search driven, i.e. you generally type in a program's name, (or at lest the beginning of it),
to launch said application.
While mate is a medium lightweight desktop, gnome is not as resource hungry as one might think and can be
pretty responsive on less than high end
hardware, but performance will probably not be as good with the gnome version available for Jessie as it
would with a later release.
--
B.H.
Registerd Linux User 521886
Mitchell Smith wrote:
Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:47:23AM -0800
Hi List,
I am returning to Orca after a couple of years away from it and I have a
few returning user questions.
* [1]ttsynth.com is kind of broken? A while back I purchased a ttsynth
license, and I just jumped on [2]ttsynth.com to grab the packages, but all
the links seem kind of broken, the page is still there but none of the
links are clickable, if I click on capital accessibility who appears to
own [3]ttsynth.com I get a default WordPress page, have these guys gone
out of business, and if so is there an alternate download location I can
use with my existing license?
* Desktop environments: so I’m starting with a Debian Jessie minimal
install with no desktop environment installed yet, are there any
recommendations which is the most accessible? should I stick with a basic
gnome install or go for something a bit more light weight like XFCE?
* Speech dispatcher: so obviously I want the most responsive speech
possible, is speech dispatcher still the recommended approach?
* Pulseaudio is it still evil? a few years back I remember it was good
practice to kill off pulse audio, is that still best practice or should I
leave it in place, on a similar thread should I install Jack, I know this
is / was the default in Ubuntu Studio as it provided very low latency
audio.
I guess I could have just installed from Ubuntu 15.10 and had a
ready-to-go desktop environment, but I use Debian everywhere else I may as
well stick with it for now.
All comments / feedback / suggestions are extremely welcome, and thanks in
advance.
Cheers,
Mitch
References
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1. http://ttsynth.com/
2. http://ttsynth.com/
3. http://ttsynth.com/
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