On 8/26/10, Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com wrote:

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:35 -0400, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:

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Hello list,

I'm a blind Linux user and i'm not sure if this is the right list. I was wondering if you could package speech-dispatcher with orca instead of gnome-speech? The reason why I ask is because orca is working a lot with speech-dispatcher for better performance and by using speech-dispatcher orca works better with pulseaudio. Orca does not work well with gnome-speech if pulseaudio is implamented into the os it causes orca to be delayed with how fast it responds when keyboard commands are given to read the screen or do other actions. In f13 I'm running now but that is only because I had to tweek it to get better performance. If this change was made to speech-dispatcher this would give a better experience out of the box for new users or even blind users who want to switch to Fedora or at least try it out. Thanks for your time and help and all the hard work.

Hey, thanks for pointing this out. Investigating this switch was somewhere very deep on my todo list for a long time.

Have you done this switch on your system and can give me some hints as to whats involved ? Is the speech-dispatcher package we have in F14 set up to work out of the box ?

Matthias

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No I'm not running speech-dispatcher right now. I just messed around with f13 to get gnome-speech running well. I know for speech-dispatcher to run you must install speech-dispatcher and I don't remember the exact name of the other program but it is something like speech-dispatcher-python or it is python-speech-dispatcher once you have these two installed then you had to configure speech-dispatcher for it to be the default. You would do this by going into the terminal and typing spdconf this would start the configuring of speech-dispatcher. This is where I had the problem I don't remember the exact problem but since I could not finish this process I could not change the orca settings to use speech-dispatcher in the orca menu. If you didn't finish the set up speech-dispatcher doesn't show up in the orca menu. hope this helps a little. I download f14 and will install it over the weekend in a virtual machine and can let you know what I can do. Thanks again for all the work.