On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 07:37:17PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:37:17 -0700
> From: Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: looking for a program....
> To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org
>
> On 02/16/2012 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >> I'm quite sure that what you're looking for is for some screen reader &
> >> speech synthesis solution, like Orca [1], isn't it?
> >> If not, or Orca doesn't fit your needs, you can deal with speech-dispatcher
> >> in a easy way from your application. Controlling what to say, pitch, rate,
> >> language, etc.
>
> Orca is not what you are looking for. Orca is a screen reader to assist
> the blind and seeing-impaired.
>
> It is not there to act as a voice for a person who cannot speak, though
> I suppose it could be used as such, but that is not its primary purpose.
>
>
> > i spent the entire day looking for what WAS in ubuntu 10.04
> > and 10.10, but must have changed with 11.*. it has a config
> > panel when the program began that let you set things such as
> > you mention: pitch, rate, volume, ... but this program is no
> > longer available.
> >
> > I installed a bunch of what i thought might be helpful
> > tools, and now when i run VBC, I get the following
> > warnings:
>
> The warnings are probably harmless to your VBC program, though they
> indicate something isn't quite right with the screen reader stuff
> installed. Hopefully others can shed light on how to fix these messages
> that will probably come up when trying to run any GTK program. You
> might try logging out and back in, or rebooting. It could be that the
> daemons required to implement the screen reader just aren't loaded yet.
synaptic was also broke--i tried to install the missing
packages that way (and thru apt-get). to solve the synaptic
issue took quite awshile and involved pasting a string of
commands that only a ubuntu genius could grok. after that,
tho, my VBC ran just fine.
nutshell: [??]
...and now back to my options quandry!
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