Re: java-atk-wrapper in ubuntu 20.04

Am 18.10.20 um 19:22 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Hello, Halim Sahin, le sam. 17 oct. 2020 09:55:45 +0200, a ecrit: there seems to be a problem with atkwrapper in Ubuntu focal. When I run a java application orca reads nothing and the app itself seems to be crashed. Which application

java-atk-wrapper in ubuntu 20.04

Hi, there seems to be a problem with atkwrapper in Ubuntu focal. When I run a java application orca reads nothing and the app itself seems to be crashed. My workaround is to use the atkwrapper packages from ubuntu 18.04. Is this a known problem? Regards halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: How to switch Libao to Alsa?

Am 19.08.20 um 15:57 schrieb Vojtěch šmiro: Hello, how to switch Libao to Alsa in Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 4B 4 GB RAM? I have Ubuntu Mate 20.04 32 bit for Arm. Espeak on Libao speaks scarry. Thanks. Best regards Vojta. Hi, edit /etc/libao.conf and change first line to default_driver=alsa

Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility

Hi, On Di, Mai 24, 2011 at 01:14:32 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: The first thing is making sure LXDE is actually accessible, i.e make sure it has keyboard shortcuts, and supports the launching of the accessibility framework at startup etc. As to using the LXDE GUI with Orca etc, I think the

Re: speech dispatcher as system service on ubuntu maverick

Hi, Try to place the attached file in ~/.pulse folder of your desktop user. After that reconfigure speech-dispatcher (systemservice) to use alsa. Totaly untested, I am no longer using ubuntu. HTH. Halim #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF # # This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software;

does maverick contain a working at-spi2 infrastrcture?

Hi, I want to give it a try but don't want to build all needed stuff myself. Are the packages at-spi2[atk/core] and pyatspi2 already included in the maverick live cds? BR. Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: does maverick contain a working at-spi2 infrastrcture?

Hi Luke, Just wondering about this decision: maverick will ship gnome 3.0 right? gnome 3 doesn't ship bonobo and other stuff so I am interested to know how you can reintegrate bonobo there. BR. Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: problems with the lucid live cd

hi, I suggest adding a beep to the boot menu prompt of the live cd. Opensuse does this afaik since opensuse 11.1. Perhaps anyone can add this feature request in launchpad? Regards Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: problems with the lucid live cd

hi, Hmm yes the beepers are controlled by the hda codec after the driver is loaded during boot. But the speaker works in an early boot process before loading the sound drivers as well. There are only few machines without a real speaker but most have! @Luke: Is there a way to add the beep in

Re: Sound issues 10.04

Hi Thom, Why are you combining two emulators for testing? My suggestion: Use alsa for wine and configure the pulseaudio to use dmix so it can't block the audiocard. Edit/place the attached default.pa under ~/.pulse and restart pulseaudio. BR. Halim #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF # # This file is part

Re: retrieving synthesized auio data?

hello Bill, Here is my answer for those not subscribed to speechd mailinglist. - hi Jacob and Luke, @Jacob do you need the audio data for further processing? Or do you need only creating wave files from the synthesized text? Maybe a good start is to add a dummy audio output

Re: retrieving synthesized auio data?

hello Bill, Here is my answer for those not subscribed to speechd mailinglist. - hi Jacob and Luke, @Jacob do you need the audio data for further processing? Or do you need only creating wave files from the synthesized text? Maybe a good start is to add a dummy audio output

Re: Lucid and speech dispatcher

Hi Bill, On Mi, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:05:28 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: I guess first I need to understand why you want it in system-wide mode. Having it ru as user has benefits. In particular, you can bind a command like sh -c 'killall speech-dispatcher; orca --replace' to a key like Shift+Ctrl+O,

Re: Anyone know how to increase the console font size

Hi Bill, I think you have a framebuffer running on your system. This results in a screen other than 80x25. Try this cmd after login to a textconsole: stty cols 80 rows 25 HTH. Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: compiling speech-dispatcher with support to ibmtts

Hi, Then open your config.log, search for ibmtts and post the next lines related to it. BR. halim -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: rhythm box

Hi Storm, On Mo, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:43:59 +, Storm Dragon wrote: Hi, You can fix this by checking the crossfade option in preferences under the playback tab. Set the seconds for 3 or more. It would be more helpfull to fix the problem itself instead of doing a workarround. have

Re: compiling speech-dispatcher with support to ibmtts

hi Luke and list, The eci.h needs to be in /usr/include. The libs should be symlinked to /usr/lib/libetidev.so and /usr/lib/libibmeci.so And you need also the old libstdc++ in /usr/lib After these steps are complete, speechd can detect the ibmtts. BR. Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing

Re: Anyone know how Fedora 12 launches root apps?

hi bill, Not sure, what about policykit? Regards Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Really no ideas? Re: lucid live cd want's username and password?

Hi, Running the lucid live cd stopps at gdm prompt and want username and password. Is this a known problem or what user and pass can be used for login? Regards Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

lucid live cd want's username and password?

Hi, I have bootet lucid live cd from today in kvm. Gdm comes up and want username and pass. Which user and pass can i use to start gnome? BR. Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: ANNOUNCE stable espeak-speech-dispatcher-pulseaudio for karmic

and restart speech-dispatcher. e.g. GenericPunctNone --punct=.,{}[] In german it works correctly when I select punctuation all in orca. HTH. halim -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

ANNOUNCE stable espeak-speech-dispatcher-pulseaudio for karmic

hello all. I know this is not an ideal solution but it seems usable on my machine and maybe some of you is interested in this stuff as well. 1. Under karmic edit the file ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf search for the line containing espeak-generic and uncomment it by removing the # at the

Re: Very interesting pulseaudio problems?

Hi, some days ago you wrote that you are using gnomespeech. This is the reason why pulseaudio blocks orca. Pulseaudio opens the hw0,0 alsa device so no other alsa application can work. This happens only to useless soundcards without hardwaremixing!!! You can try speechd and select it's pulse

Re: Very interesting pulseaudio problems?

# CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS is not set # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: Problem with accessible login in Karmic

Servus Attila, Using gnome-speech is a temporary hack because it will be removed in gnome 3.0. You can try to modify the orca start command and add a -n to avoid the copy of ~/.orca folder. Finaly my Question is: Have you tried this setup under debian as well? BR. halim --

Re: Ubuntu karmic, now with speech-dispatcher as default speech backend, and grade 2 Braille via liblouis.

Hi Luke, I have downloaded karmic-desktop-amd64.iso There is now speech-dispatcher installed. Which image contains speech-dispatcher or do we need to wait for the next daily live cd? Regards Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: the sbl screen reader

Hi, On Do, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:02:56 +0200, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: Dear users, As i know, SBl (suseblinux screen reader) is included in some Opensuse repository, and Adriane Knoppix is also having this screen reader included and it's configuration files has been modified, so this screen

Re: the sbl screen reader

Hi, On Do, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:45:17 +, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Speakup can do programs like alsamixer by pressing the * key on the numeric keypad and using hilight tracking. Sorry me fault. You are right. Maybe didn't read the manual carefuly. BR Halim -- Ubuntu-accessibility

Re: the sbl screen reader

Hi, No I have tested speakup and used the highlight tracking mode. Sorry this is nice but not working correctly when two highlights are used. speakup can't read the menu in mc correctly. in alsamixer it reads not only the highlighted mixer. Guys have a lookup to sbl. Regards Halim -- Halim

Re: are there any plans to add software speech to the alternitive cd?

Hi, On Mo, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:22:23 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:18:30AM EST, mike wrote: Hi, are there any plans to make the alternative CD accessible with software speech so we can install it with out sighted assistance? I would think this could be done with

Re: pulseaudio problems again

with pulseaudio. Everytime I get updates in karmic and it is installed I loose speech. I was always able to just uninstall pulseaudio to get speech back until today. This time after uninstalling pulseaudio, I got no login sound or speech after rebooting. Mike. -- Halim Sahin E-Mail

Re: pulseaudio problems again

Hi, On Di, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:49:46 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Halim Sahin wrote: Hi Eric, Can you please explain why we need a new audio system and not using alsa directly??? because Alsa is broken. It does not work well with wine. It does not work well with USB microphones

Re: SAPI

Hi, Read this: http://code.google.com/p/open-sapi/ Regards Halim -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

Re: orca and Jaunty

Orca to speak nicely? I tried the options in the preference menu but without any results. Thank you in advance. Milton -- Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Orca/speech in 9.04..again

Hi, Try the following on a clean 9.04 installation: Open a gnome-terminal sudo aptitude install speech-dispatcher python-speechd then run spd-conf and create a new configuration for your user. select espeak as outputmodule and port 6560. select oss as sound output start speech-dispatcher.

high cpu load under ubuntu 9.04and orca

Hi List, On my laptop powertop says the folowing: 98,4% (6838,0)python : schedule_hrtimeout_range (hrtimer_wakeup) 1,0% ( 71,0) interrupt : VIA82XX-MODEM, VIA686A 0,2% ( 13,6) interrupt : pata_via 0,1% ( 9,6) interrupt : uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta, eth0,