Unable to use espeak with orca

[Zachary Kline]

Hello,
    No, I am not using the Speech Dispatcher backend.  I've got the Gnome 
Speech backend.  However, I'm not using Ubuntu, so can't speak to how 
responsive or unresponsive it might be.
Yours,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to use espeak with orca


> Zack, how did you get your Orca running with Espeak?  Did you use the
> backend for speech-dispatcher?  If so, where did you put the .py file
> that you have to download?  I got ubuntu installed, and Orca is
> running, but doesn't seem as responsive as it should be.  If you or
> anyone know how to get the experimental backend running, please let
> me know.  There might even be an update to it now, the docs on it are
> still from last summer some time.  Thanks much in advance for the help.
>
> Later,
>
>
> Guy
> P.S.  If I have to go through gnomespeech, how can I play system
> sounds and music files at the same time?
>
> At 06:33 PM 4/29/2007, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>     Orca doesn't have an 'espeak' module for speech synthesis, as I 
>> recall.
>>What it does have is a Gnome Speech module.  Gnome Speech in turn hooks 
>>into
>>Speech Dispatcher, which hooks into Espeak.
>>Now, I have had no difficulties with Orca forgetting any preferences of
>>mine--it uses Espeak just fine.
>>Hope this is helpful,
>>Zack.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Garrett Klein" <garrettklein at comcast.net>
>>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 3:22 PM
>>Subject: Unable to use espeak with orca
>>
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I got orca working yesterday. And I had it using espeak.
>> > However, sometimes Orca seems to "forget" that it's supposed to
>> > use espeak, but keeps my speech rate/key echo settings in tact.
>> > I upgraded to svn orca this morning, and it was working fine,
>> > until it forgot my preferences again. I should note, at this
>> > point, that espeak isn't available in the GUI preferences,
>> > regardless of version. And in the newest orca, I get a python
>> > traceback at the end of running orca --text-setup.
>> >
>> > Anyone else have this problem?
>> >
>> > Garrett
>> >
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