Re: Ubuntu Hardee losing speech
- From: Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blind programming <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:41:39 +1000 (EST)
Hi Fred,
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Fred Rains wrote:
At this point I am not sure I know enough about Ubuntu to answer all your
No worries.
questions. When I look under the speech system combo in the Orca
preferences, it only says Gnome speech services. I think it is just Orca
So that is what is selected by default?
If so sd isn't the problem.
Actually, lots of people are seeing this on other lists too. So I should
probably do some research... (And test my installed ubuntu, I tend to use
debian.)
crashing and not Gnome. I tried pressing alt F2 and typing Orca the last
time I lost speech and that worked. I have not installed Speakup, and I
Yep, there is a problem with either: a sound lib, orca, the synth driver
or anything else that controls orca speech from orca to the soundcard; its
not gnome.
don't think it comes preinstalled, so I am guessing I have no console screen
reader.
It does not, however, it requires you to patch a kernel.
If you like you can use my kernel and install it with:
dpkg -i <mykernel>
(Let me know if you want it)
Or if you read braille and have a braille display, you could use brltty:
apt-get install brltty
(as root)
Good luck,
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Daniel Dalton
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<d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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