Hi Storm, Thanks for tip, I forgot to include that in Orca Ubuntu Karmic page.
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuKarmic Cheers --arky Rakesh 'arky' Ambati| IT Consultant| http://www.braillewithoutborders.org | Blog: http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com --- On Mon, 2/11/09, Storm Dragon <stormdragon2...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 Koala positive feetback related > toaccessibility and speech responsiveness > To: "ubuntu" <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com> > Date: Monday, 2 November, 2009, 8:08 PM > > > > > > > > Hi, > > I was having the same problems with pulseaudio. The pauses > every few wordes were quite interesting. Removing pulse > solved sound problems for more than just orca though. I am > still using speech-dispatcher with no problems. Did you > remember to run spd-conf and set it to use alsa instead of > pulse? I am using 64 bit Karmik. > > > > > > > > -- > Thoughts of a Dragon: > http://www.stormdragon.us/ > What color dragon are you? > http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/alustriel07/what-color-dragon-would-you-be/ > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 08:57 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > > > I'm very glad to hear about positive experiences so far > with Karmic. > I installed the x64 version yesterday on my laptop (Dell > Inspiron > 9400). Orca did work out-of-the-box, which is nice. If > blind users > absolutely must do a few things on linux, Karmic can do the > job. > However, I found there to be a delay due to pulseaudio of > about 1/2 > second, making key and word echo useless. The delay is so > bad, I > don't see how I could use Karmic with Orca full-time. > I installed > voxin as well (far nicer than espeak, IMO), and had two > additional > problems, besides the delay. When using speech-dispatcher, > speech > would pause every few seconds for about half a second, > which is > seriously annoying. When using Gnome Speech Services, > instead of > pausing, it simply stops speaking, so it is very tedious to > listen to > an entire document. I suspect both problems are related to > the delay > in pulseaudio. > > With the virtual machine install, I was able to get Orca > working well > by uninstalling pulseaudio, as described here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuKarmic > > However, when installed on my laptop, removing pulseaudio > caused > speech-dispatcher to hang, with 100% CPU utilization. So, > for now, I > have no suitable Karmic-based Orca solution. Are other > people seeing > the delay problem? Is it only with the x64 version? Are > you using > Karmic/Orca as your main machine, or just playing around a > bit? > > Thanks, > Bill > > > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > Try the new Yahoo! India Homepage. Click here. http://in.yahoo.com/trynew -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
