Re: need help with installing Sonar

2014-08-23 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
If you are not seeing forward then you have missed a spot to enter in some data. Double check and make sure you have all regions filled out. On 23/08/14 17:51, Lenny wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to install Sonar onto my Asus 901. It is painfully slow in the region section, so I don't want to

ubuntu 14.04 and firefox accessibility

2014-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Hello list, I know 14.04 is still in beta but I installed it and found this problem. Everything seems to work fine but the only problem is that firefox isn't accessible with Orca. once I open firefox Orca stops speaking. Orca works on the desktop and with other applications but not Firefox. This

Re: ubuntu 14.04 and firefox accessibility

2014-03-04 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
i haven't done any updates today. I will run them in a little bit. Thanks for your time and help. On 03/04/2014 03:37 PM, Rob Whyte wrote: Hi, I performed updates last night and it was resolved. Have you updated your system? Rob On 05/03/14 07:22, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: Well I'm

Re: [Support] Sharada-Braille-Writer 1.4 Released, Download from following link.

2013-01-09 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Hey did you guys check this out? It looks pretty cool. On 01/08/2013 11:31 PM, sathayn linux wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbrw/ -- Home page http://www.jnadeau.org Accessible Computing Foundation http://www.accessiblecomputingfoundation.org Northeast GNU/Linux Fest

Re: Here it is...Ubuntu Phone

2013-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Well said. On 01/07/2013 03:14 PM, Kyle wrote: I do lots of things with my computer using Linux. Granted, my primary distro is Arch Linux rather than Ubuntu, so I get all the latest stuff as soon as it's released, but I don't use Windows, except the very rare times when I need to print

Re: Here it is...Ubuntu Phone

2013-01-07 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Couldn't have said it better myself. On 01/07/2013 06:21 PM, Kyle wrote: QT accessibility in Linux still has a long way to go. I'm not denying this. However, giving credit where credit is due, QT accessibility has made major improvements, going from near zero just 2 years ago to something

Re: [Support] Initial Finding Re: Quantal GNOME Shell Remix

2012-10-02 Thread Jonathan Nadeau
Good to know I will be checking this out soon. On 10/02/2012 06:35 PM, Dave Hunt wrote: Hi, I installed this remix to a flash drive; the live system booted with no errors. Access to the shell seems improved over shell access in Precise. The included GNumeric, Abiword, and Evolution are not

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Creating An Accessibility Specification for Lubuntu 11.10

2011-05-30 Thread Jonathan Marsden
:) Jonathan -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Creating An Accessibility Specification for Lubuntu 11.10

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop is the archive for lubuntu-desktop. Jonathan -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Creating An Accessibility Specification for Lubuntu 11.10

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
) -- and I can't even find the official Ubuntu accessibility roadmap yet! Jonathan -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Creating An Accessibility Specification for Lubuntu 11.10

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
apps. It doesn't make sense to evaluate *any* apps at all without a clear definition of what you are trying to accomplish by adding those apps to Lubuntu; hence my request for a clearer specification. Thanks for helping us take the first small steps in this direction, Jonathan [ Throwaway aside

Re: Creating An Accessibility Specification for Lubuntu 11.10

2011-05-29 Thread Jonathan Marsden
. Does it use ubiquity for the installer? Yes, but alternative installer(s) are something we want to see as we move to using real Ubuntu ISO build infrastructure. Jonathan -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

orca response

2009-10-06 Thread jonathan
Hello, I just installed the betta today and noticed that orca does not respond as fast as in 9.04 When I entered the orca setup there where a few new options like default or espeak or dummy. Which of these should I use to get the best performace? One last thing I tried to remove pulseaudio

orca 9.04

2009-04-24 Thread jonathan
Hello list, I just installed ubuntu 9.04 and started orca. when it started the volume of it is low and orca is talking so fast you can't understand it. it is as if the rate was set at well over 100. has any one else had this problem? Thanks for any help. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list

RE: grub beep control-g

2008-06-10 Thread Jonathan Chacón
to save and exit I know hexedit is not easyest editor but I think hexedit is easyer than vi or vim Regards Jonathan Chacón -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

RE: grub beep control-g

2008-06-06 Thread Jonathan Chacón
by default. When you had made the changes. Save the file pressing control+X Regards Jonathan Chacón -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: [ubuntu-accessibility] KDE desktop accessibility

2007-08-22 Thread Jonathan Riddell
to be written using the qdbusbridge which is packaged at http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/nixternal/ubuntu/ (you need to export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1), qdasher seems to work a bit so the framework is all there. http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDasher Jonathan -- Ubuntu

Locales, character sets, and wctype functions

2007-03-31 Thread Jonathan Duddington
This probably isn't the best place to ask this programming question, but perhaps someone knows the answer, or else suggest a better place to ask. The eSpeak program processes text from different languages with different character sets. Internally, it uses unicode. When processing text, it calls

Re: Problems with Ubuntu Espeak 1.19 package?

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about the details of this, but espeak has now made it into main and installs fine here. http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/sound/espeak still shows Universe. I've just released a new version 1.20, to fix a

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
is this on? Is the byte order different from i386? Have you ever had eSpeak working on it, or do you know anyone who has? Jonathan, I have come to the conclusion that the phoneme data as well as dictionaries need to be rebuilt, to suit the architecture the package is being built on. I notice that the espeakedit

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the same behavior on Ubuntu Edgy powerpc. What happens if you run espeakedit --compile or espeakedit --help ? Is there an error message? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/espeak-data$ ../espeakedit-1.18/src/espeakedit

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My PPC box is running the GUI; so what would be involved in recompiling the data? Is it just a matter of installing the espeakedit program and issuing a command line? First I must check for other byte-order dependencies,

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I must check for other byte-order dependencies, and make some changes to the espeakedit program. I will let you know when it's ready to try. Once it's compiled, hopefully you will be able to just do

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Al can get the data compiled and sent to me, that should be good enough for now, as I don't see the chances of espeak being used on ia64 and sparc being very high, but for the future, we need a more perminant solution

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-15 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After recompiling the dictionary data, I no longer get that error; However, still no speech. If I send a string to eSpeak, it just exits with no noticeable output. Does that suggest incompatible phoneme data? I'm not

Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)

2007-01-14 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a somewhat related note, have you tried compiling Espeak under Ubuntu for PPC? When attempting to do so, I'm getting an error during the make, having to do with the inability to find lespeak. It's as if the compile

Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)

2007-01-14 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps there is a way of making the makefile do that automatically? Following a suggestion from Gilles, here's a revised makefile that should compile all three: speak, libespeak.so.1.1.18, and espeak. Also, if you

eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-14 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, at least on the PPC architecture, there appears to still be a problem. If I attempt to test Espeak via the command line, I get the following; Bad data: '/usr/share/espeak-data/en_dict'. This was actually

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-14 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delete the file /usr/share/espeak-data/en_dict file, and also make sure you don't have a directory espeak-data in your user's home directory. ... because it will use the espeak-data in the user's home directory

Re: eSpeak in Norwegian, part 1

2006-12-06 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henrik Nilsen Omma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The results from my first listening test: menneskenes [1] The 3rd 'e' is too long [2] 'r' needs to be more pronounced [3] The last 'e' has the wrong tone/flavour Sounds like an æ, should be like 'Long E' on [*]

Re: eSpeak in Norwegian, part 1

2006-12-06 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henrik Nilsen Omma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then generated .wav files of each text file using the initial voice files. I first made files at the standard speed of -s160, but found that slower files were easier to analyse and settled on -s100. While I was at

Re: TTS voices project

2006-12-05 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, it seems like eSpeak only (tries to) use OSS. Text-to-speech is basically a function that translates input data (text) into output data (sound waveform). How to play that sound on the computer is a different

Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?

2006-11-01 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gilles Casse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for the notice, Speakup at the moment works with 8 bits charsets (not UTF-8). Just to note, eSpeak should be able to accept either UTF8 or the 8-bit character set which is appropriate for the language (eg ISO 8859-1

Re: Available text-to-speech software for linux

2006-10-09 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Duddington, le Mon 09 Oct 2006 13:07:02 +0100, a écrit : The LarsWiki list is incomplete. There's also eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Then please notify LarsWiki people. Yes, I'll do that. I

Re: Sudo in Gnome, cp Wildcards, Invert Selection (OT?)

2006-10-02 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veli-Pekka Tätilä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems my ordinary user account has no rights to do that. So my question is, how do I perform some Gnome commands as the super user such as when copying or editing files? I normally use a Ubuntu based system with a

Re: eSpeak Problem: PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY

2006-09-30 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hynek Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./speak this is a test PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -1 I can get that same error message if I speak a text file and then try to

[Bug 33530] Re: KTTs wont shut up!

2006-09-29 Thread Jonathan Jesse
I noticed he last comment on this was w/ Flight 4 of Dapper. Are you still having problems with this on Dapper 6.06.1 LTS? Are you able to update your system to 6.06.1? If so could you please update your system and then update this bug? Thanks, Jonathan -- KTTs wont shut up! https

eSpeak package links broken for Edgy?

2006-09-29 Thread Jonathan Duddington
I noticed yesterday that if I search http://packages.ubuntu.com/ for espeak I see four related packages for Edgy (espeak, espeak-data, libespeak1, libespeak-dev), all at version 1.15. If I try now (a day later) to download these packages, the last three give 404-Not found, while the first gives

Orca and eSpeak

2006-09-22 Thread Jonathan Duddington
I've been asked whether Orca can use the eSpeak software synthesizer. I believe that Gnome Speech can be set up to use Speech Dispatcher, and Speech Dispatcher can use eSpeak. So in theory the answer seems to be yes. Has anyone done this, and does it work in practice? Does responsiveness

Re: [ubuntu-accessibility] kde

2006-06-06 Thread Jonathan Riddell
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:03:19PM -0500, mike coulombe wrote: Hi I was reading something that said kde 3.4 will talk to you. Does anyone know if this is true. Yes, various programmes support KTTS, the KDE Text-to-Speech System. http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ Jonathan

Re: [ubuntu-accessibility] Edgy Accessibility features

2006-04-25 Thread Jonathan Riddell
For Kubuntu Edgy I'd like to see much of kdeaccessibility in main and having a profile on the CD to show off the accessibility settings, same as Ubuntu has. Jonathan -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu