Re: [orca-list] Using eMacSpeak

[Devin Prater <r d t prater gmail com>]

Oh, I don't even have to turn off Orca, unless it's chattering about notifications too much. Emacs just shows a dummy text box, and Orca doesn't read the window, so is silent when using Emacspeak.

Devin Prater

r d t prater gmail com

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 6:45 PM Jason White via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:

On 15/4/21 12:50 am, Glenn K0LNY wrote:

I would like to hear from some users, and also from anyone who does not like it.

Emacspeak works well for me. If you're running it in a graphical desktop session, you should probably turn off Orca's speech while doing so. I run it in a console in order to get braille support as well.

Speakup seems problematic on the RPI, and I haven't heard of a way to get Fenrir on Raspbian.

I suppose you could consider a different distribution, if that's the issue.

I tried Stormux, but it did not seem to work at all on the zero.

I don't want to go out and read about eMacSpeak, I just want to hear from some of you.

For example, is it a CLI program, or does it require a desktop?

It's an extension to Emacs that provides its own spoken interface. That's why turning off Orca (if in a graphical session) would be a good idea.

Does it take a lot of RAM?

No.

The RPI zero only has 512 MB of RAM.

I have loaded up the desktop and installed Orca, but that runs pretty slow.

I'm just looking for a good CLI experience, and I don't know anything about eMacSpeak.

Emacspeak belongs to the category of truly great software, in my opinion. Learning Emacs is of course essential, if you aren't already familiar with it.

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