new guy, I have a few questions.

Farhan i.am.farhan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 23:56:02 EDT 2006


HI, over the past  three days ive been playing with orca.
This is on a Ubuntu edgy knot3 release system.
I have noticed that Orca is a bit unresponsive but that's to do with flight issues not orca itself, some applications freeze the speech and I have to restart to get it back, for example: The synaptic utility.
Don't be to excited about orca, there's a long way to go, don't get me wrong its a huge giant step sinse Gnopernicus but its nothing like speakup or anything on windows.
On 9/20/2006 at 22:53 Guy Schlosser said
Hey there Scott, not sure where to get Viavoice for Linux currently, but 
I do know that there is an awesome utility that connects it with 
Speakup, if we can get our hands on an installable package for viavoice.  
As far as speakup's abilities, it is a console (command line) screen 
reader, but there is Orca that works with the Gnome desktop under 
X-Windows.  I'm trying now to get my Gnome updated, because I'm 
impatient, want to play with Orca and don't want to wait another month 
for Fedora Core 6.  At any rate, I hope that helps and good luck with 
Linux.


Guy


On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:02:06AM -0400, Scott Ford wrote:
> Hello yall,
> 	I have used Linux over the years on and off.  I have always wanted
> to either keep a version that is easy to maintain, and have a software
> synthesizer that works out of the box.  I had a friend turn me onto one, it
> is called grml.  Now I would like to see if I could find the IBM via voice
> and see if I could get that working.  I am not real strong in the command
> line world though. My questions are.  Could someone tell me where I could
> obtain the IBM via voice engine?  Next is speak up solely for the command
> line, or will it work with x window manager?
> Scott 
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