William, I'm actually on the -vi raspberry list - specifically V I, in case
relevant, but, also hosted by freelists, so let's see, but, seems like while
you can install orca on debian - found a set of instructions to try it, am
not yet sure it will work with raspbian version - let's see what other
raspberry-vi guys have to say.
But, a response from another guy on program-l VI programmers list confirmed
that speakUp is only for terminal mode, but anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Brandes" <williambrandes@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 8:15 PM
Subject: [blindza] Re: speakUp under debian version of linux
hi jacob. can't answer any of those questions. but, a pi is in my
amazon cart but have as of yet not pulled the trigger. a christmas
diversion. i also am a lister of the pi list on freelists. posed the
question there? if you did, probably just missed it. take care ...
william
On 11/9/15, Jacob Kruger <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Currently playing around with a raspberry pi mini-computer, for a couple of
reasons, and while had initially tried out the instance of the operating
system I got hold of from raspberryvi.org, but, think it maybe had hardware
compatibility issues with the unit have here, since never made it past what
am sort of referring to as the rainbow-screen-of-death, so ended up
installing the sort of latest mainstream version of he raspberry pi
operating system, which I think is sort of based on debian linux on it - not
100% sure, but anyway.
Managed to get little bit of sighted help to try installing speakUp from the
gitHub project, sort of following instructions had gotten hold of via the
raspberry-vi freelists mailing list, and now when boot up the unit, speakUp
seems to be telling me all the boot-up information, but, after that it
almost seems like the whole unit just goes silent - had my sighted friend
try playing around with a couple of things to try get it to just play normal
sounds to me, but heard nothing, and speakUp definitely didn't seem to be
reading any parts of either the GUI interface, or text in a terminal window
launched from within the GUI to me.
Was just wondering if - and, know this isn't necessarily too common-place -
anyone might have any experience with working with speakUp in any similar
version of linux, and if so, does it interact with/read out any of that
interface to you, similar to how orca handles ubuntu, etc.?
Or, is speakUp merely meant to handle just the full-on terminal interface of
linux at all - doesn't really make sense, since got hold of those
instructions from the raspberry-vi mailing list archives, but, on the other
hand, don't think they were being applied to anything like this version of
the operating system that finally made it past booting up?
Side note - on the raspberry pi downloads page, also found mention of
something that almost seems like it might be a version of windows 10 meant
to run on a raspberry pi, but, not too sure, and might actually just be a
sort of SDK environment for raspberry platform to be installed under windows
10 - wording is a bit non-definitive, but anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
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