Re: Running Speakup on Ubuntu (fwd)

  • From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 21:07:15 -0600

Sina... You make me laugh. You talk about a productive thread in the same breath that you insult me, then you insult me again and forward this to every list you possibly can. What did you possibly get out of that?


Now, as to your accusations. I made a comment about Vinux being cobbled together. I've had nothing but problems with it (experience), and everything is held together by threads that shatter at the smallest changes. The cd is loaded with software that can be easily installed. You can disagree until you're blue in the face, but that's how it is. I like the idea of Vinux, but I don't much care for the cram-everything-that-will-fit in one cd. I'm also not really keen on just leaving out a reader because it happens to not work and kicking out a release as was already done.

Now, if you like, you can keep on insulting me and forwarding this to every other possible list, if you think that that will gain you more popularity points. I am not against accessibility; as soon as things settle down (within the next couple of weeks), I had planned on seeing what I could add to Orca. The fact that I don't like Vinux doesn't make me a horrible person, and I'd rather add to something that will make things easier for all concerned, rather than try to contribute with a project I disagree with.
On 5/31/2011 8:26 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
I believe it to be unproductive, misleading, and obviously ignorant, to say 
things about Vinux that you so clearly can't
substantiate.

Opinions are one thing, but you just sent a post to this list highlighting the 
fact that someone shouldn't give misleading
information, and then within 24 to 48 hours, you do exactly that.

What's more, you don't even have a clear idea on how to fix the problem, and I 
guarantee you Tyler that you don't understand the
nuances or complexities of the problem because you haven't taken any time to 
bother learning them. This is putting aside the issue
of the problem actually being nontrivial. Furthermore, you don't even care to 
figure it out.

Your words are extremely frustrating to individuals who spent countless hours 
of their time and effort working on Vinux, and other
accessibility solutions for that matter.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: Littlefield, Tyler [mailto:tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:53 PM
To: Sina Bahram
Subject: Re: Running Speakup on Ubuntu (fwd)

Sina:
Thanks for your response.
I don't really much care for trying to figure out the mess. My point was
that it was cobbled together, Everything just sort of was made to work
for the time being without any insite into the future, and now it's
falling apart. On another note, I mentioned running espeakup (which
would I think, elimenate the need for a secondary speech-dispatcher to
run), though I could be wrong. I just thought it might be a bit of a
solution, anyway.

On 5/31/2011 4:20 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
Tyler, I completely agree.

I feel that you, sir, and only you can fix it.

Thus, please help us fix it from the cobbled mess it is.

   Please provide a working solution for the problem highlighted below between 
pulseaudio in system wide mode, etc. etc.

I'll give you a freebee. You don't even have to implement your solution. Just 
detail it in full please.

You obviously know more about this problem than anyone else, so please explain 
very clearly where Vinux has gone wrong in
pulseaudio, speakup, and orca support.

I eagerly await your productive response.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:03 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Running Speakup on Ubuntu (fwd)

I think the problem is they've cobbled Vinux together, and now the
bubble gum acting as glue is finally falling apart.
On another note, why not use espeakup? It works with pulse, no?
On 5/31/2011 3:52 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 05:13:39
From: Tony Sales<tony.sales@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Ubuntu-accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
       <Ubuntu-accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Running Speakup on Ubuntu

Is anyone able to get speakup running on anUbuntu installation (or live CD) 
which has the default orca  screen-reader option
enabled - in other words - which has Orca running and Pulseaudio running in 
user mode? Or even on a plain Ubuntu without Orca
enabled - I have been trying to do this for a week and have not made any 
progress. I am not sure whether the problem is pulsaudio
or
speech-dispatcher or speech-up - but I suspect it maybe caused by 
speech-dispatcher as I am able to run pulseaudio and speech-up
without any error messages. But I get an error about speech-dispatcher being 
disabled if I try to start that in a console.
Speech-dispatcher seems to be set not to run in system mode by default.
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