Re: Installing Voxin Eloquence Broke Speakup?

2023-07-13 Thread K0LNY
If the console is only giving espeak, I have changed that with spd-conf and using voxin or in my case, ibmtts for the default TTS. But with espeak-ng, there are some better voice selections, so maybe it can be fixed that way too. Not as good as Voxin, but better than the default espeak for

Re: Installing Voxin Eloquence Broke Speakup?

2023-07-13 Thread Chime Hart
Well, Glen, I would think if you switch to an actual console, you would want Voxin. It would probably just switch focus-and-switch from an ORCA to Speakup. But yes I have seen this when I was trying out Slint. Chime

Re: Installing Voxin Eloquence Broke Speakup?

2023-07-13 Thread K0LNY
Al, I don't think you would want both going at the same time. Orca should be providing speech in the terminal. If Speakup were still going, you would hear it along with Orca. Glenn - Original Message - From: Al Puzzuoli To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday,

RE: Installing Voxin Eloquence Broke Speakup?

2023-07-13 Thread Al Puzzuoli
So after testing a bit more, it seems the issue is that I can choose either Orca or Speakup. If I start a Mate session, then Speakup no longer works until the next reboot. If I start a Speakup session first, the opposite is true. Now that I understand it, I can work with this limitation if it's

Installing Voxin Eloquence Broke Speakup?

2023-07-13 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Hi all, Running Debian Bookworm and the Mate desktop environment. I just installed Voxin. After the Voxin install I rebooted the system and Orca immediately came up using Eloquence as the synthesizer. However I noticed that now when I switch to a console terminal, I am not getting any speech at

RE: What's the most Accessible Linux VM Server Platform?

2023-07-13 Thread Al Puzzuoli
A lot of great info here. Thanks very much! I very much appreciate it. Take care, --Al -Original Message- From: Christian Schoepplein Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 7:47 AM To: Al Puzzuoli Cc: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What's the most Accessible Linux VM Server

Re: What's the most Accessible Linux VM Server Platform?

2023-07-13 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Al, On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 01:09:43PM -0400, Al Puzzuoli wrote: >I am thinking I'll run a Linux virtual machine and in that machine, I'll >run several small docker containers such as Pihole, Plex, and a few other >things. No problem. This can be done with kvm / qemu and libvirt without any