Help with an Espeakup Error
Hi, Speakup and Espeakup were working perfectly until just recently. Now, when I try to start Espeakup, I get this message: Unable to open the softsynth device: No such file or directory Does anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it? Using Ubuntu 9.04. thanks Storm Check out the Storm Dragon blog: http://www.stormdragon.us/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
gksu and policykit
Hello, I'm wondering if the long standing issue of not being able to run administrative applications that use gksu to obtain the user's password before they run with Orca will be fixed in the next version of Ubuntu. While the gksu dialogue is accessible, speech cuts out immediately after pressing return or pressing the Okay button and cannot be resumed until the user kills the gksu process from a text console at which point the administrative application is accessible. I know that some of the admin apps in Ubuntu have been shifted over to using PolicyKit for user authentication but that the apps themselves need to be rewritten for this to work. Apparently there is work being done on a new version of gksu that uses PolicyKit as its backend rather than su or sudo. I'm wondering if this will be included in the next version of Ubuntu. this bug was filed back in the days of Ubuntu Feisty but some work seems to have been done on it early this year which seems to indicate that using gksu-polkit and Orca can be made to work. the bug url is; http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449159 I hope something can be done to solve this long standing problem soon. In my opinion its the biggest problem blind users are currently facing with Ubuntu. Paul -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Cygwin / Dragon / SAPI / Linux
Angelo Marra ha scritto: Sorry it is not cler to me: can I use SAPI in LINUX ? I have Ubuntu 9.04... How about Dictation? Thanks a lot Sorry I did not put my name it is Angelo. -- Angelo D. Marra Dottore di Ricerca in Diritto Civile Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria Avvocato in Reggio Calabria Via Pio XI, trav. Putortì, 36 89133 Reggio Calabria ITALIA Email: angelo.ma...@libero.it (valido anche per MSN) Skype: angelorc Abit: +39 (0)965.59 39 96 Mobile: +39 349.619 11 56 *** Responsabile della mailing-list Disability Studies Italy http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilitystudies_italy/ Per iscriversi mandare una email a: disabilitystudies_italy-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Accessibility suggestions
What prevents me to cmigrete to linux is 1 I need to dictate 2 I need Text to speech as SAPI 3 I have a wonderful scanner (plusteck opticbook 3600 which is not supported but it is amazing in results for scanning books. I tried to use KDE TTS but it is very non-friendly. I use Dspeech in win: (http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/) I'd love to heve such a software for linux - on the idea of programming by voice: fantastic! I'd love to do that. some years ago, while looking for open hardware, I found a project on programming in natural ways or languages... I cannot find it any more. :-/ I have a disability and I study accessibility and inclusive policies, I've a lot of hints if needed. unfortunately, I'm unable to put hands-on-it as I'd never programmed more then macros in word an a bit of basic. cheers Angelo -- Angelo D. Marra Dottore di Ricerca in Diritto Civile Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria Avvocato in Reggio Calabria Via Pio XI, trav. Putortì, 36 89133 Reggio Calabria ITALIA Email: angelo.ma...@libero.it (valido anche per MSN) Skype: angelorc Abit: +39 (0)965.59 39 96 Mobile: +39 349.619 11 56 *** Responsabile della mailing-list Disability Studies Italy http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilitystudies_italy/ Per iscriversi mandare una email a: disabilitystudies_italy-subscr...@yahoogroups.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2: 5. Frequent Crashes in Ubuntu 9.04
I had similar greying. I don't recommend my solution, which was to create a Jaunty installation CD and re-build. I recommend researching the main UBUNTU forums - specifically the installation one. I think the root cause of my crashes was having the wrong Java run-time environment (JRE). But you should research the installation Ubuntu forum. Richard. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
