the orca screen reader in f14

[Jonathan Nadeau]

On 8/26/10, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:35 -0400, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'm a blind Linux user and i'm not sure if this is the right list. I
>> was wondering if you could package speech-dispatcher with orca instead
>> of gnome-speech? The reason why I ask is because orca is working a lot
>> with speech-dispatcher for better performance and by using
>> speech-dispatcher orca works better with pulseaudio. Orca does not
>> work well with gnome-speech if pulseaudio is implamented into the os
>> it causes orca to be delayed with how fast it responds when keyboard
>> commands are given to read the screen or do other actions. In f13 I'm
>> running now but that is only because I had to tweek it to get better
>> performance. If this change was made to speech-dispatcher this would
>> give a better experience out of the box for new users or even blind
>> users who want to switch to Fedora or at least try it out. Thanks for
>> your time and help and all the hard work.
>
>
> Hey, thanks for pointing this out. Investigating this switch was
> somewhere very deep on my todo list for a long time.
>
> Have you done this switch on your system and can give me some hints as
> to whats involved ? Is the speech-dispatcher package we have in F14 set
> up to work out of the box ?
>
>
> Matthias
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No I'm not running speech-dispatcher right now. I just messed around
with f13 to get gnome-speech running well. I know for
speech-dispatcher to run you must install speech-dispatcher and I
don't remember the exact name of the other program but it is something
like speech-dispatcher-python or it is python-speech-dispatcher once
you have these two installed then you had to configure
speech-dispatcher for it to be the default. You would do this by going
into the terminal and typing spdconf this would start the configuring
of speech-dispatcher. This is where I had the problem I don't remember
the exact problem but since I could not finish this process I could
not change the orca settings to use speech-dispatcher in the orca
menu. If you didn't finish the set up speech-dispatcher doesn't show
up in the orca menu. hope this helps a little. I download f14 and will
install it over the weekend in a virtual machine and can let you know
what I can do. Thanks again for all the work.