Speech Works Now, Quic Qs about Dispatcher Tweaking and Magnification

[Veli-Pekka Tätilä]

Hi,
Just reporting that eSPeak speaks with speech-Dispatcher now. Great stuff. I 
think this is much more intelligible and responsive than Festival is. Now I 
can start looking into all the GUi tools in Gnome and Ubuntu, getting to 
know Orca and other such things. One quick question, though:

Is there a good, canonical speech-dispatcher config for eSpeak? The one I'm 
using is old enough not to include pitch at all and it doesn't seem able to 
use the full range of speech rates either. Any tips about the offsets and 
multipliers available in eSpeak would be appreciated. I'll look into this on 
my own, too, now that I can do this properly.

I still don't think too highly of the Gnopernicus magnifier. Does Orca 
include one? I'd relly like to dock it at the bottom of the screen but canot 
figure out how, in the magnification dialog.

After having changed the mouse pointer to a big red one and the desktop 
background to dark blue the system already feels much better and cozier with 
the limited sight I still have left. I'm going to try my hand at creating an 
accessible theme that works well with my sight at some point. let's see if 
I've got better luck than with Debian a couple of years back.

As usual, I'll continue to post regarding any major problems or observations 
about Ubuntu accessibility.
Getting the speech up and running with a screen reader is a huge win for me 
personally and makes it so much easier to actually start using and 
troubleshooting the system. This is the second time ever I've gotten a LInux 
system up to this point and I'm going to make a snapshot of this virtual 
machine right about now. Done.

Thanks to all of you people taking part in these mini threads of mine.

-- 
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila at mail.student.oulu.fi)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/