Re: [orca-list] TTSynth and other returning user questions

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

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.
    
 


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  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
>
>    Visible links
>    1. http://ttsynth.com/
>    2. http://ttsynth.com/
>    3. http://ttsynth.com/

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