Hi, Doug, First, the speed 250 is slow for me too though I'm ukrainian/russian speaking. And I don't know how to increase it too. In emacspeak I use 350 for multispeech. Second, when you save settings of yasr, it duplicates the lines containing options you have changed. So if you change the key-combination for entering/exiting "review mode" and then save settings, when you run next time yasr, U will find that it impossible to enter the "review mode": if U press the key to enter "review mode" yasr will execute this command twice, that is enter "review mode" and immediately exits this mode. So that, U should manually edit ".yasr.conf" to remove all duplicated lines. And once more, U shouldn't change synthesizer in options, it may cause hangs of yasr! Third, use "man yasr|more" to read mans. Fourth, to exit oralux, U have to exit yasr first, then exit a shell by either pressing ctrl-d twice or typing "exit" first time with speech output then without one. It is because yasr isn't true screen reader, when it starts it runs its own shell in which goes all output from programs U run. That's why U cannot see what was on the screen before U run yasr. Fifth, in ne U should turn off status bar to normally use it, but in oralux it's already done, I guess. To enter menu bar press "escape" key and to leave it press the key again. Sixth, when some program, U are running now, is busy and doesn't accept keyboard input, when U press function keys such as F1 through F12 or arrows or "page down/up" it prints their text equivalents such as "[[[b". Seventh, the punctuations to none is OK. I don't have new 0.7 oralux yet, so I cannot try mcvox.
Just be pationt and all be right. Roma, out - - - - From: Doug Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24.03.2006 14:39 > > > This is a change. To everyone on the list. I have a question I need > to ask. > > Could someone out there please teach me how to use yasr? I can tell > you what problems I have had with it since I have been attempting to > use it and there might be something someone can tell me. > > First of all, the speech is far too slow. I set my emacspeak at level > 9 which is the fastest for speech, and I am comfortable with this. I > don't know how many words per minute that is, the 150 and 175 of yasr > with a maximum of 250 is too slow for me. > > Now, I have a problem with the thing hanging. There is no way to > enter the settings menu of yasr and get the configuration file the way > I want it and get back out again. After I set up the speech > synthesizer and the rate, I find myself permanently entrapped in yasr > and there is no way to save the configuration file settings and get > back to work. > > The third problem is that the yasr documentation, rather, whatever > program is used by the pdmenu program to display it, hangs up after > the first screen full and there is no way to get to the key > definitions and the rest of the documentation for yasr other than > using emacspeak, which is what I normally use, anyway, to get at the > man page. > > Now, how do you get the thing to go back to the pdmenu when you have > finished with the program you want to use, and are ready to either > change programs or stop the system and exit Oralux? Yasr simply falls > silent and, most likely, disappears when I hit control-d or even type > exit to leave the shell program. > > Does anyone use ne? That is a mis-nomer. There is nothing nice about > that editor. It is a total nightmare to use. If anyone uses this > program, I would appreciate whatever feedback you can give me on that > one. I don't even try to use it for anything but reading a file or > two, and I don't remember the commands I have tried, but there has to > be a simple way to learn ne. > > Has anyone tried to learn the mcvox? How do you use that one? What > can you do with that other than just list the files and directories in > the top level of a disk file partition? If you can, please help me to > learn this one as well. I like to learn new programs. > > Is there a way to get yasr to stop saying all punctuation? Even with > the punctuation set to none, there is still enough to be annoying when > reading through a regular text file such as a book. I guess you have > to change all your settings in that configuration file, ~/.yasr.conf, > is that right? > > Now, when you do something wrong, and I don't even know what it is, > yasr starts saying the absolutely craziest things. What is [[a and > [[b and [[c? These are all the program will say once they start and > there is no way for me to get the thing reset again. > > As a result of any of these problems, whichever ones happen to occur > on a typical experience with yasr, I have to reboot my system. I have > to stop whatever work I have started an mess around with the system to > get back to a place where I can continue to work. > > > > Your help is greatly appreciated. > > > > _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
