Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 Koala positive feetback related toaccessibility and speech responsiveness

[Storm Dragon]

Hi,
Lol I didn't realize they were respawning.  So that's why there is no
volume control.  I have just been using alsamixer.  If you prefer a gui
and can see well enough to use it, alsamixergui should do the trick.
sudo apt-get install alsamixergui
I added a custom application launcher with alsamixergui to the top panel
in case anyone sighted using my computer wanted to change the volume.
So far it's been a hit.
Storm


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On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 10:21 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:

> Hi, Storm.  Once again, you totally rock!  I did in fact forget to
> change pulse to alsa in speechd.conf (D'oh!).  I'll edit the
> Orca/Karmic wiki page and add this step.  Now key echo is working
> well, and I'm having currently no problems in Karmic with Orca using
> voxin with speech-dispatcher/alsa.  I'm basically a happy camper at
> the moment.
> 
> I'm still having trouble getting the volume control to show up in the
> gnome panel.  I delete .pulse and .pulse-cookie, but some process
> keeps recreating them!  Do you also know the solution to this?
> 
> Thanks, Bill.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Storm Dragon
> <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         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.
>         
>         
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>         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
>         > 
>         
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