Hi Samuel: Are you suggesting I file a "reportbug" item with ORCA? Honestly
since I stay as far away as I can from espeak, I wouldn't know how it handles
mixed case. As far as the Fenrir options-and-manual, I will discuss those with
Storm. Thank you.
Chime
Hi All: In looking over an ORCA config file, I couldn't help but notice,
similar to the Fenrir manual, most options have 3words jammed together, no
spaces. Now, in a windows enviremnent with mixed case enabled, this would not
be an issue, but listening in a console with a DecTalk, much of it is
Well, Roberto-and-All, I tried apt or aptitude install orca
it says its the latest version 46.2 minus 1. I am in Trixy Sid. Please inform
what changes in that newer version? Thanks so much in advance
Chime
Hi DJ-and-All: Wonderful post-and-comprehensive info. For awhile we tried
Fenrir in Arch on my laptop. With Storm's modified desktop, I can really say
for the first time I actually enjoy browsing in Brave. Well, I went back to
Debian, but now having `alot of trouble getting to install his
Well, thank you Samuel, I guess my `obsession in wanting the latest packages
gets the best of me. Now, in the past I had found an alternative package
manager which was supposedly better at dealing with dipendancies? And just
curious, are their any Debian distros which have later kernels like
Hi All: First of all, maybe 2weeks ago Debian altered an upgrade dialogue.
While I preferred the previous one, this one mentions available space which may
be a factor. Next, I am noticing here in Debian SID that packages I use
regularly are mysteriously vanishing. Maybe sometimes in a long list
Well Geoff, I wonder if speakupconf only has an affect on software speech?
Anyway, as I have mentioned in multiple lists since 2003, I have a DecTalk USB,
similar to an Express. The settings in dectlk.c are not what I want. While
reading, scrolling, or booting, the rate drops from my prefered
Well, Frank-and-All, while I am certainly not useing espeak, I don't think
speakupconf does any good for these DecTalk settings, which hopefully I filed
a bug. These seem to be defalts, unless there are ways of compiling changes in
the drivers? I know what values I would like, but its just a
Well Samuel, I tried just typing words which fit a condition, but judging by
earlier comments, I guess you can only pick from an aproved list.
Chime
Hi All: As I was working through reportbug, it asks me for tags? Well, no
matter how I write them, it says "invalid entry" In the man-page it either
shows --T or -T= Maybe instead of a cryptic "invalid entry" it would be more
helpful mentioning what items are missing. Thanks so much in advance
Hi Glen: Sometimes on a laptop running Voxin with Speakup, I had strange things
where speech-dispatcher was already running. So I looked at running
processes-and-manually killed everything related with speech, then launch
speechd-up.
Chime
Its been many years since I have been able to even sign in to Amazon or PayPal.
Sure, you can look around, but once a purchase is about to happen, you must be
signed in.
Chime
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
Hi Samuel: Is their an English-Language version of that item? My Wife suggested
I try
www.DeepL.com
but it was less than accessibile. Thanks in advance
Chime
Well, I've had Debian 12 now for 11 days. An only anoyance which I can't seem
to fix, when I run my daily updates-and-upgrades in what was SID, I get this
message about BookWorm non-free changing its name. Even if I remove bookworm
from sources.list, I still get this message. Otherwise, I
Hi All: In the past while running upgrades in SID, if there were an item where
I needed to choose among installing a maintainers version or keeping mine, the
menu showed letter combinations-and-explained what would happen. Well, now the
menu is numeric-and-I am not sure actually typing 1 of
Hi All: A friend of mine who seems to love-and-follow Ubuntu asks me if Debian
has any live kernel patches, where you wouldn't need to boot the system? I am
in Debian SID-and-would `absolutely love an option such as that. Thanks so much
in advance
Chime
HI Glen: Does your file tab-complete? Also, why not try a dot slash in front of
that name.
Chime
Hi Glen: In the case where you have silence, try pulse instead. So you would
have alsa as system-and-pulse as a user.
Chime
Well, Frank, after an upgrade-and-a reboot, I had noticed strange similar
items. What helped here was to re-install console-setup, as I am also in SID.
Also, had to once again install console-fonts as I like 180lines. Anyway, hope
those work for you
Chime
Hi Samuel: For some reason console-setup along with my preferred font had to be
re-installed. All works well now--thank you
Chime
Followup, I can at least type a left arrow+f1-f12 for those group of consoles.
Also, the right alt handles 13-24, but I still cannot cycle through 1by1.
Thanks in advance
Chime
Hi All: Finally after 122 days I rebooted my main machine which had been on
5.18, now Linux chime 6.0.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.0.8-1
(2022-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Before, I could use alt+either left or right arrow to cycle through my 24
consoles. Now it just beeps-and-an only
Hi Cindy: Sometime a Debian Multimedia has packages such as mpv which may not
be in a regular mirror.
Chime
Well, thank you Jordan: I am actually either hoping some1 will fix that mirror
or suggest a Debian Multimedia mirror which is current-and-working. Thanks
again.
Chime
Hi All: As I run daily updates, I am noticing an error connecting to this
mirror.
http://mirror.optus.net/deb-multimedia/dists/unstable/InRelease
Even just trying it in LYNX just hangs. Can some1 please suggest an adequate
replacement for my sources list? This is Debian SID. Thanks so much in
Hi All: Here in Debian SID, this morning like almost all mornings, I run an
update/upgrade. Well, the following somewhat confusing dialogue was heard:
Configuring grub-efi-amd64
--
A new version (/tmp/grub.5v5YFFfMZW) of configuration file /etc/default/grub is
Well Jude, never heard of "eww" I looked with an apt, nothing doing, but
aptitude says
Couldn't find any package matching "eww", but there are 2 packages which
contain "eww" in their description:
metview-data elpa-ace-link
Thanks in advance
Chime
Well, Glen, like any softare choices, there are pros-and-cons. I find L Y N X
much easier to work with than the other L I N K S family, but there are certain
sites where you would need to experiment with that other family.
Chime
You know, among 158 links on that page, I find no way of voting?
Chime
Well John, its been several years that whois has been fairly useless. I always
used it to e-mail a web-master when contact info was blocked within javascript,
but I always explained how-and-why I was writing.
Chime
Well, David, Samuel-and-All, to my amazement, yesterday with the help of David
from the Slint list, I now have Allison, an embedded Voxin voice working in
Debian SID. Among steps I had to take were making sure that only 1 item showed
up when running spd-say -O or -L. Running spd-conf and
Well, DJ, Samuel recently said he over-reacted. As you can imagine, some times
asking on more than 1 list for a solution can be helpful, especially as not all
of us are subscribed to all the same lists.
Chime
Well, an interesting thread. The package which concerns me which was on that
list is "trn" a usenet news-reader. I sure hope it won't be removed! Meanwhile
will these also be removed from Debian SID, which I run on my desktop. As an
anoying side note, on my laptop, I am in testing, but when
Well, DJ, I had the same results as Rob.
Chime
Well, thank you DJ, in following your link, I may have run in to helpful
packages which I will explore. Meanwhile you mention a 0.5 version of
speechd-up, but I think I saw a 0.6 at their freeb site, but I got errors
when working with it. Thanks
Chimesoft
OK David, will send you that file off-list. Meanwhile rebooted, no change.
Looked in the voxin README file in an allison sub-directory, but seemingly no
mentions of embedded voices. And lastly, Didier suggested I subscribe-and-ask
about his script on this list.
Chime
OK David, I just added that line to /etc/modules meanwhile here are the rest
of the contents.
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
Hi again David: I am only hearing Allison when I use spd-say to send her speech
directly.
Chime
Well, thank you David for your analysis. I tried your suggestions-and an only
difference, mine mentions Fenrir.
gzip: /proc/config.gz: No such file or directory
speechd-up is not a valid argument of this command.
Usage: /usr/sbin/speak-with or or none
Choose a console screen reader to talk
Hi All: I hope I am now subscribed to this list? Didier, an author of Slint
wrote this script to enable us to more easily switch synthisizers. I would
actually like to switch among my DecTalk U S B and an embedded Voxin voice, but
when I run his script, I receive this error
gzip:
Hi David-and-All: I think I followed a majority of your instructions, but when
I restarted, only the DecTalk spoke. Meanwhile
voxin-say -L
Name,Language,Variant
american_english,en,US
allison-embedded-high,en,US
Back again live, I tried working with that github site, but seemingly useing
LYNX
Hi Both Davids: Thank you, will need to try this, as I followed Davids
instructions rather carefully, but even after rebooting, still no Voxin nor
Allison.
Chime
Hi All: I hope I am subscribed to this list, as it was suggested by Paul, who's
name was in a README of this package.
Anyway, I am trying to get newer embedded voices from Voxin running in a Debian
SID 5.16.0-3 system. A version of speechd-up which tries to install is 0.5 from
Brailcom. But
I would vote for the phrase "special needs" instead of any form of disabled, as
it would seem more of a positive. Thank you
Chime
Hi All: Yesterday Didier mentioned an item called "alos" for Debian, which
neither apt nor aptitude have? Wonder if it were a typo? Thanks in advance
Chime
Well DJ, why not just type "reportbug" followed by the name of package? I've
had fairly good luck over the years, at least having my concerns be heard. I
think the most trouble I had was having the program send my request through a
remote server.
Chime
Well, Mike, I will hopefully answer both your questions. #1 I think there are
ways of creating menus based on LYNX the browser, similar to what Universities
made for students or visitors. #2 You can also use LYNX to browse or read files
on your local drive. So as an example, if you were to type
Well Martin-and-All, considering a PC-speaker gives a boop when a boot menu
appears, couldn't more be done to take advantage of that? I mean, at very
least, have different amount of beeps as we up-and-down arrow. Obviously for
Hams, CW would be an option, but I don't know what any actual words
Well, DJ, first of all, I see why you like Zoe. But what were those metronome
style clicks after each sentense? Maybe some time if they ever fix those
non-interrupt issues, maybe I would purchase a 3rd voice.
Now, I completely agree with you about Word-Perfect. wp6.0 let me do anything I
Well Jordan, first of all, an hour ago you sent a huge file 68thousand lines,
while including or quoting an item. My Alpine froze for maybe 45seconds or so.
Next, you make reference about console screen-readers, but I thought this newer
project is only a graphical attempt I myself have never
Hi Aaron: On at least 2 instances I asked NVDA if they would make a Linux
version? Both times they said "no" While I am only a console user, I've always
found ORCA confusing, but 1 of my Linux experts thinks that with a different
desktop layout, I might like it better. If there were a graphical
Thank you DJ, I got all 152kb of it.
Chime
Sorry Jude, in the words of the 4Tops "Its the Same Old Song" Wonder if some
portion of the file name is capitalized, but you think it isn't? Best of luck
figuring this out, but yet I think 1 lister did grab it.
Chime
Well, Jude, I still get a 404 error.
Chime
I suppose you can try grml as a live cd
Chime
Well Vojt, since you are asking about the process, I think I did something
similar going from testing to sid. First you would want to run a search in
your favorite search engine for "debian testing packages" Once you have
such a list, hopefully including packages from non free, also multimedia.
Well, an only place I could suggest would be our Southern California Linux expo,
called Scale. I examined the site, but don't see merchandise. However, I will
take you to the contact page, hopefully they can help.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/18x/contact-us
Good luck
Chime
As a Debian user, but not a programmer, I would suggest an accessability section
from each branch, so whether I select testing or Sid, I could find an access
link-and-section. Thanks so much in advance
Chime
You know, David, while Gilles says in April, we may have a Speakup connector for
those voices, I wrote Nuance, asking how I could purchase for Linux? They said
they didn't have, but would forward on to their team. And yes, I agree, several
of those are fabulous-and-I really want them as well.
While certainly numbered beeps would be quite good, at least in LILO you can
asign letter hotkeys such as w for windows. Can that be done in grub? Thanks in
advance
Chime
I myself think including an orriginal message in a reply basicly wastes time, as
we already heard an orriginal the first time. From experimenting, a better way
would be formatting as if you were reading a play with speakers identified
back-and-forth. Especially in Usenet, they accesively quote,
Well, I tried it out, however, not only is the submitt link 1 of those "not
implimented" but when I force it in LYNX, it knocks me out with a faital error.
I suppose I should use their contact link
Thanks for passing this along
Chime
OK Vojt, when on my Debian system, if I type
man -k midi
I get these matches
amidi (1)- read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
aplaymidi (1)- play Standard MIDI Files
arecordmidi (1) - record Standard MIDI Files
midid (1)- Raw Midi interpreter
timidity (1)
Well, thanks for letting us have an advanced look. An only curiousity are what
are those 4 radio button sliders on links 13-17? Thanks in advance
Chime
Well Jude, will the old Jim Kitchen DOS games run in DOS e m u? Or there were
others like World Series Baseball in the 90s. I had an idea for one which never
seemed to exist in an accessible form, which I can certainly explain at another
time, but since I am not a programmer, just a happy user.
Well Chrys, is this a console screen-reader which runs from a graphical desktop?
Will it run in Debian? Also in the README it only mentions e-speak? I hope
eventually there will be other options. Thanks in advance
Chime
Well Adri, actually I have writtin folks at NVDA requesting them to make a Linux
version. Along with yourself, I wish they did. Their flat review is almost
exactly what we enjoy in Speakup, which is console or command-line based. Maybe
if there were a graphical screen-reader in Linux with a
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