Re: Selecting gnome-speech drivers

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> > gnome-speech merely offers up a system for selecting/activating  
> > known speech drivers, with no particular speech driver being the  
> > 'default.'  It is up to the assistive technology to decide what to  
> > do with them.  To make sure your system is configured with the  
> > speech dispatcher driver correctly, you can run the gnome-speech  
> > 'test-speech' (/usr/bin/test-speech) application.  If a gnome- 
> > speech driver doesn't work with it, the gnome-speech driver will  
> > not work with the screen reader.
>
> I understand that, but what I'm not certain of is how orca would  
> know to use speech-dispatcher instead of festival. Both drivers  
> show up when test-speech is run. Does orca have facilities for  
> selecting among multiple speech drivers from orca-setup?

If a gnome-speech driver is *functional* (e.g., it not only shows up  
with test-speech, but you can actually use it and make it speak with  
test-speech), then orca-setup should offer it as an option.  If the  
driver is not functional, Orca doesn't waste your time with it.  Once  
you have chosen the driver and voice, orca-setup stores your choice  
in ~/.orca/user-settings.py.  If you want to change your choice in  
the future, you can rerun orca-setup.

NOTE: the orca-setup script is merely a place holder until we get a  
more functional preferences GUI in place.  We realize the orca-setup  
script is cumbersome and awkward, but it is throwaway code and we  
don't want to spend valuable time on it.

> I see that there is Festival info in my user-settings.py. Is this  
> being grabbed directly from gnome-speech and, if so, does it  
> indicate an incorrect gnome-speech setup on my system? The correct  
> libgnomespeech is showing up in 'ldconfig -p', and I added the path  
> to the speech servers to my bonobo-activation config. Is there  
> something else that I might be missing?

Looks like something odd may have happened when you ran orca-setup  
the first time.  Is is possible you chose Festival the first time you  
ran orca-setup?

In any case, without sitting behind your machine, I can only guess  
that something is going awry with your gnome-speech setup.  Try  
running gnome-speech's test-speech application and make sure you can  
actually make your driver choice speak.

Will