Debian upgrade to Jessie

Tue May 19 22:02:25 EDT 2015

Johnny and all,
I have tried orca with espeak on this box and the latency is horrible.
Yes
the speech speed its self is fine, so I didn't state my original
properly,
it's the latency/speed of response that drives me nuts with orca and
espeak.

I'll try speakup with espeak see how that works.

I had only minor problems getting speakup with the doubletalk PC working
on
wheezie, the installer worked rite off, but speakup wouldn't start on
reboot
until I removed brltty info from 
/etc/initramfs/modules
Then both speakup and brltty started at boot fine.
As I recall from previous discussions on this list, the problems in
later
kernels are with serial synths. Some have indicated this may not relate
to
the DTLK internal.

Afraid I'm much too much of a wimp to try compiling a kernel but I'll
look
at the mentioned page. and see how much I quiver with fear <GRIN>
Thanks
Tom

  Tom Fowle
  wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm

On Tue, May 19, 2015, at 09:49 AM, John G Heim wrote:
> Have you tried using software speech on your machine? I would be very 
> surprised if it really is too slow. I used to have a laptop with a 
> original Pentium processor and 56Mb of ram. That is not a typo, 56Mb of 
> ram. Speakup with software speech ran fine. I used to walk around my 
> house streaming the audio portion of TV shows on it. I also have a 
> machine that is the mid-90s equivalent of a raspberry pi. This machine 
> has a 486 processor and 256Mb of ram. It's a Soekris 4801 in case you're 
> curious. Anyway, it runs speakup with software speech just fine.
> 
> 
> I guess it might depend on what else you are doing on your machine. But 
> if your machine is slow, I would doubt that the problem is primarily 
> with software speech.
> 
> On 05/18/2015 08:20 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> > Thanks all for various comments.
> > I did read the wikki but didn't seem to find anything about speakup.
> > which
> > is my only serious interest in screen readers for now.
> > Yes use brltty also but unfortunately brltty's speech system doesn't
> > support
> > the doubletalk.
> > My box is too slow for software speech unless I want a lot of naps.
> >
> > I believe running version 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
> >
> >
> > Looks like my cowardly best bet is to wait till more experienced users
> > have
> > a go.
> > Since I don't care about multiple desktops only reason to upgrade
> > appears
> > to be so as not to get behind the upgrades and eventually have to
> > entirely
> > reinstall.
> > Thanks
> >    Tom Fowle
> >    wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I did a full net install of Debian Jessie rather than upgrade Wheezy to
> >> Jessie to Wheezy because Jessie gives alternative desktops.
> >>
> >> I picked the Mate desktop and it works very well, and accessibility is
> >> excellent.
> >>
> >> Debian Jessie now includes Emacspeak in the repos, so no need to build
> >> it from source.
> >>
> >> I have found no big accessibility problems.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On 18/05/2015 03:41, acollins at icsmail.net wrote:
> >>> Hi Tom.  I would suggest you test Jessie with a live cd, and if that
> >>> works, then upgrade.
> >>>
> >>> Gene Collins
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Michael A. Ray
> >> Analyst/Programmer
> >> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
> >>
> >> "In the beginning there was Debian, and Ubuntu was without form, and
> >> void"
> >>
> >> Eyes-free Linux:
> >> http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/
> >>
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> 
> -- 
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