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

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

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

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:

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