Re: [orca-list] any accessible chess game?

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

Is pulse audio required, or can xboard be run using alsa directly?
I'll be able to test on a machine I have if straight alsa is not 
possible, but my production box is alsa only.
Regards,

     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886

On 03/07/15 10:02 PM, Nalin.x.Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Nalin.x.Linux <nalin x linux gmail com> wrote:
> > Dear friends, I just made the popular chess graphical front-end named
> > XBoard accessible. We need an immediate testing. Currently it uses
> > pico tts to announce various information. I just added KeyNavigation
> > so that one can use arrow keys to select, press enter key to lock and
> > use arrow keys and enter to finish move also one can use the direct
> > notation using keyboard. The accessibility menu contains
> > SayWhosTurn(Alt+Shift+m), ReadRow(Alt+r), ReadColumn(Alt+Shift+f),
> > SayUpperDiagnols(Alt+u), SayLowerDiagnols(Alt+l), SayClockTime(Alt+t),
> > SayAllBoard(Alt+p), SayWhitePieces(Alt+w),SayBlackPieces(Alt+b),
> > SayKnightMoves(Alt+Shift+n), SayCurrentPos(Space or Alt+s),
> > PossibleAttacked(Alt+d),  PossibleAttackMove(Alt+Shift+m),
> > SayMachineMove(Alt+x).
> >
> > Please run following commands in-order to test it.
> >
> > sudo apt-get install fairymax texinfo libgtk-3-dev build-essential
> > libttspico-utils
> > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.git
> > git checkout gtk3
> > autoreconf --install
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > make
> > sudo make install
> Troubleshooting : First of all try to test pico is working or not
> using following command
>
> pico2wave -l en-GB -w info.wav "hello how are you " && paplay info.wav
>
> maybe you have to install pulseaudio-utils for paplay.
>
> BTW if you want use espeak do the following commands and compile
> again. Beware orca may become silent if you are using espeak as
> default for orca.
>
> sudo apt-get install espeak
> cd xboard
> git checkout dae52d215b88feb4f23fb7dd1abd3b74cf46627d
> make
> sudo make install