remapping keys in Gnopernicus was Re: An idea,

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

Did you increase the rate for festival to the max?  The only other free
synth I know about is freeTTS.  It is java based.  I've never tried it
myself.  Festival is fine for my limited use of Gnopernicus and Gnome.
If you want to try freeTTS, you will need to ask a Fedora user how to
install and get it running.

Actually, since the last update of gnome-speech broke my festival, I just
use braille in Gnome.


          Kenny
	  
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:37:47AM -0500, Farhan wrote:
> the funny thing is when, i used gnopernicus with my fc3 install.
> festival was the slow. so I really couldn't get much use outa it. I
> wonder if someone could help me find a better software synth that's
> free? i looked for flite but couldn't find anything.
> 
> on7/27/2005Kenny Hitt said  
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:45:02AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:25:06AM EST, Scott Berry wrote:
> > > This really doesn't pertain to how Gnopernicus works.  But one 
> > > question I really would like to through around out here is why are 
> > > the keystrokes so difficult.  I know you can change key bindings in 
> > > Gnopernicus but it looked like a guy with 20 years of experience 
> > > would have to do it.  Maybe this has changed in recent versions but I 
> > > remember when I started using Gnopernicus wow!  Difficult to learn.
> > 
> > I haven't used Gnopernicus regularly for a while now, but I think it is 
> > something to do with the various layers of functionality that 
> > Gnopernicus has. For example, a mouse control layer, a magnification 
> > control layer, a speech configuration layer, etc. I think the idea was 
> > to keep as many keystrokes as possible on the numpad.
> > 
> > As you and others may have found out, this is hopeless when attempting 
> > to use Gnopernicus on a laptop. One has to know how to access their 
> > laptop numpad keys to use Gnopernicus, and then one still has to switch 
> > back and forth between modes while working.
> > 
> > It would be worth while bringing this up on the gnome-accessibility 
> > list, as others may have some ideas about all of this.
> > -- 
> 
> Maybe I've used Gnopernicus for too long now, but it isn't all that
> difficult.  Most commands needed by a totally blind person are on layer
> 0.
> 
> If you want to remap keys, go to the "command mapping"dialog  under the
> preferences menu.
> Use right arrow to move to the user defined keys tab, tab to the 
> add button, select the key in the dialog, select the command in the list and you're done.
> To delete a key from the keypad, goto the command mapping dialog under
> the preferences menu, select the layers tab, select the key you want to
> delete, tab to the delete button, and you're done.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>           Kenny
> 	  
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