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From: Michael Whapples <mikster4@msn.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: firefox?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:41:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY103-DAV18702BF9B23FA08EF9CBF08EBF0@phx.gbl> (raw)
Message-ID: <1167990078.8577.4.camel@layla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0701041733441.21161@server2.shellworld.net>

Your in luck it seems, Orca can use emacspeak speech servers, and I
think the dectalk express is supported like that. I can't confirm that
it actually works as I don't have a dectalk but all the options seem to
be there.

From
Michael Whapples
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:36 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I understand.  Perhaps something either for later or for another platform.
> I am a hardware synth person, so suppose I will need to learn not only if 
> there is a debian distro with orca, but if it works with say a dec 
> express.
> Thanks again,
> Karen
> 
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Firefox 2.0 still has accessibility problems.  I know it is in Ubuntu
> > Edgy.  It should be available in other Linux distros.  You can improve
> > access to it if you install the Firevox plugin.  This makes Firefox self
> > voicing.  It can use Orca as it's speech output, so you can use what
> > ever synth you use with Orca.
> >
> > Gaime is a part of the Gnome desktop.  I believe there are issues with
> > some versions using Orca, but I haven't had problems using the default
> > version included in Ubuntu Edgy.
> >
> >          Kenny
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:54:17PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >> Hi again,
> >> Question number two.
> >> I have skimmed references to Linux editions of this now being available,
> >> but was unclear for which distributions?
> >> Is this tied to only one, and if not, can the structure created be
> >> integrated into another distribution with successful speech?
> >> Thanks again,
> >> Karen
> >>
> >>
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> 
> 




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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Getting orca running on Ubuntu (WAS): RE: Orca Chris Norman
 ` Lorenzo Taylor
   ` Chris Norman
     ` Lorenzo Taylor
       ` gnome office? Karen Lewellen
         ` Kenny Hitt
           ` Karen Lewellen
       ` firefox? Karen Lewellen
         ` firefox? Kenny Hitt
           ` firefox? Karen Lewellen
     [not found]             ` <1167990078.8577.4.camel@layla>
               ` Michael Whapples [this message]
             ` firefox? Kenny Hitt

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