Re: Orca Various and festival questions

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

Hey Cheryl,

I can tackle a couple of these for you.

> Question 1. Can I set up either gnopernicus or orca to start at gdm login
> instead of having to do alt-f2 and type the name?

Yes, one way to do this is to make Orca  start up with your gnome-session:

1.  From the preferences menu, select sessions
2.  Navigate to the startup programs tab.
3.  Press the add button, and enter the full path to the orca binary, which
by default should be /usr/bin/orca.
This is a per user setting, so you'll have to do this for each account where
in you would like Orca to automatically start.

Question 2.  > 2. When I run orca --setup, my only speech choices seem to be
for
> dectalk which I don't have. Festival works from command line on my
> system so why doesn't orca see it?

Orca won't see Festival unless gnome-speech is working properly.  Is
test-speech giving you output via festival?  What about Gnopernicus?
For more tips on troubleshooting speech related issues, have a look at the
following Wiki item:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech

I'm not certain why your attempts to build gnome-speech are ending in hangs;
However, I have a suspicion that the problem is related to the issues you
are experiencing with installing Java.  For now, maybe uninstall the Java
stuff, and then try rebuilding gnome-speech from source.

Hope this helps,

--Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak charter net>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: Various Orca and festival questions


> Orca is now running. Actually, I think I may have gnopernicus
> functional also now too. However, I have some problems and questions.
>
> 1. Can I set up either gnopernicus or orca to start at gdm login
> instead of having to do alt-f2 and type the name? I'm leaning toward
> orca as I've gotten further than that than with gnopernicus. Braille
> is working.
> 2. When I run orca --setup, my only speech choices seem to be for
> dectalk which I don't have. Festival works from command line on my
> system so why doesn't orca see it?
> 3. Debian starts speech dispatcher automatically at boot. Should this
> be off and if so how do I keep it from starting at bootup?
> 4. I tried to install the sun java sdk and jre. Both hang forever
> while trying to create deploy.jar. Any idea what to do about this? I
> am using the self-extracting binary. I see there's some kind of bug
> in debian when using the java-package but didn't find anything about
> the problem when not using this and just trying to install the .bin
> files.
>
> 5. I also have a problem with gnome-speech. I do have a version of
> gnome-speech installed though I'm not sure which one is actually
> installed; I also have debian's libgnome-speech. However, when I
> tried to install a newer version of gnome-speech )tried 0.3.10 and
> 0.4.0) they both hang forever right after checking for javac and
> saying yes to that. Any idea what would cause this?
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is,
> there will your heart be also".
>
>
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