Off topic gnopernicus and debian

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

We should probably take this to the gnome-accessibility list.

You probably want to build Gnopernicus and gnome-speech from source.
Debian's Gnopernicus is still at 0.9.  The current release is up to
0.10.7.  If you want braille support in Gnopernicus, you will need to
upgrade your Brltty.  The version in Debian is to old to work.

You will need to rebuild gnome-speech to get support for your DECtalk
software.  Also, the official gnome-speech package contains a program
called test-speech which isn't in Debian's package.  I've found
test-speech very helpful in figuring out problems.  Like it's name
suggests, it will let you test the speech servers available to
Gnopernicus.  Debian's festival isn't to old to work with Gnopernicus,
but Gnome-speech might not be working.

For Braille support, you will need to upgrade to at least Brltty 3.6.1
and get a file called ttybrl.c from the Brltty svn and replace the one
in the Gnopernicus source tree.

I'm using Gnome, but I built Gnopernicus, gnome-speech, and brltty from
source.  The rest of my Gnome is still Debian packages.

This stuff is only documented in archives of the gnome-accessibility
list, so it's not surprising you didn't find any info.  Contact me
privately if you want help building the packages from source in Debian.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:20:01AM -0700, jim grimsby wrote:
> Hi, 
> Well I have been a good boy and have read everything I can find on this
> subject.  But the fact of the matter is that everytime I install
> gnopernicus with debian I get nothing.  
> I install it using the apt-get install gnopernicus -y 
> Command
> It installs just fine.  Also it installs festival and I do a
> apt-show-versions on the dependencies  and they are all there.  
> So using gdm I log in to gnome.  
> Hit alt+f2 run gnopernicus the system beeps.  
> I enable access support.  Then I log out and log back in.
> Run it again and no speech.   No error. 
> Comes up.
> My sighted father when I was up there said nothing showed as being
> wrong. Both computers I loaded it on did not work.  
> So I guess the question is any one have any idea why not?
> Should I get gnome 2.10 and get the source for gnopernicus and see if it
> works.  Is the version of festival that comes with debian to old for
> gnome-speech to use?  Speech dispatcher seems to work with it just fine.
> 
> Also how do I tell gnopernicus to use my dectalk software version 5?  
> Is there a manual out there that explains all this shit in plain simple
> tmers so I can get this working?
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> 
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