OCR in Linux
Does anyone have an opinion about what the best OCR software is for Linux for blind people that talks well? I would prefer a command line package, but if there is only a GUI one that works OK, knowing about it would be good to know too. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
adriane-knoppix
Hi, Knoppix-adriane also works good. perhaps a version of ubuntu with the lxde desktop and orca included? I think lxde is much more responsive than gnome is and works good with orca. the only distro that lets us use lxde is currently knoppix adriane. Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com my blog is at http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net (updated frequently). Tired of Microsoft Windows and paying thousands for screen-readers? try out NVDA for Windows, or try out and switch to grml, Ubuntu, Vinux, or knoppix-adriane Linux desktops. Knoppix ubuntu and vinux-cli-max are the most accessible for beginners. also try vinux-gui and encourage those at www.cherrypal.com to use windows-xp and nvda knoppix-adriane Vinux-cli-max or grml so all blind people can have an accessible computer.-- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Help needed for system-wide pulseaudio for blind users
I don't know if this is of any help, but I reverted my Karmic install to using ALSA instead of Pulse Audio and then could get Speak Up to run just fine with other audio streams such as mp3 files. I did this last night and so have not played with getting Orca up and running yet, but on a past Jaunty system I had, I remember that Orca didn't work either until I uninstalled pulseaudio and disabled it as well. We shall see how hard it is to get Orca working with ALSA in Karmic. I get the idea that your whole point though is to get speech to play correctly with Pulse Audio though instead of removing PA and using ALSA. Am I correct? Would the ALSA work around be a satisfactory solution for you? I ask because it seems to be what has worked best for me on the systems I have tried to get talking recently. That being said, there are plenty of things I have not played with yet, such as Lucid itself. HTH, Pia On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Bill Cox wrote: I also posted this on the pulseaudio list, but there may be more help to be found here... I'm trying to build a Vinux (blind-user Linux distro) release based on Ubuntu/Lucid. There's too much code to rewrite to have everything working the "right" way with pulseaudio by May, so I want to release Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid with the system-wide hack. I've enabled PA to start in system wide mode by editing /etc/defaults/pulseaudio, and enabling it there. I've added gdm, root, speech-dispatcher, and my user name to the pulse-access group. Pulseaudio starts, and speech-dispatcher and speechd-up work with it just fine at boot. Since this is a distro for the blind, I boot into a console, not gdm. The login prompt is read nicely, as is text when I log in. However, if I try to play a .wav file, there is no sound. None of the apps with PA back-ends will play sound for me. When I type 'startx', Gome comes up, but the sound preference dialog tells me there's no sound card. I suspect that rights to use it have been granted to the speech-dispatcher user, and I'm not able to access it. If there is anyone who can help me get such a settup working, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks, Bill -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Help needed for system-wide pulseaudio for blind users
I also posted this on the pulseaudio list, but there may be more help to be found here... I'm trying to build a Vinux (blind-user Linux distro) release based on Ubuntu/Lucid. There's too much code to rewrite to have everything working the "right" way with pulseaudio by May, so I want to release Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid with the system-wide hack. I've enabled PA to start in system wide mode by editing /etc/defaults/pulseaudio, and enabling it there. I've added gdm, root, speech-dispatcher, and my user name to the pulse-access group. Pulseaudio starts, and speech-dispatcher and speechd-up work with it just fine at boot. Since this is a distro for the blind, I boot into a console, not gdm. The login prompt is read nicely, as is text when I log in. However, if I try to play a .wav file, there is no sound. None of the apps with PA back-ends will play sound for me. When I type 'startx', Gome comes up, but the sound preference dialog tells me there's no sound card. I suspect that rights to use it have been granted to the speech-dispatcher user, and I'm not able to access it. If there is anyone who can help me get such a settup working, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks, Bill -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Problem with speech-dispatcher espeak-generic in karmic
Hi all, I've installed ubuntu 9.10 onto acer aspire one a150-bk netbook and am impressed of the fact, that all hardware works out of the box. I decided do not remove pulseaudio because of those issues it causes with another desktop apps I've read about in this list. So i tried to patch the espeak-generic.conf to use paplay. Now i have following results: Espeak is noticeably more responsive; Espeak volume is lesser than normal; Russian text isn't spoken at all. Last issue is the most important for me, as I am using Russian localization of ubuntu. I am sure that espeak Russianvoice works when standart espeak speech-dispatcher module is selected. Also I am sure that russian voice is active with espeak-generic module, because it says numbers in Russian when i type them. Only numbers and english letters and text is spoken when espeak-generic is selected in orca preferences. May be this is problem with the codepage or text encoding? If you have any ideas about volume and more important Russian issue, please, let me know and i will test it. Thanks to all people who have made this excellent release of ubuntu. All the best, Lex -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
