Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Best use flags for...
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:49:37
Message-Id: 20090529184933.GA8392@linux1
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-accessibility] Best use flags for... by James Homuth
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4 espeakup will run along side orca, but it has nothing to do with it.Hi
5 James,
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7 Espeakup just allows speakup to use espeak as its synthesizer. So, if
8 you enter graphics mode, orca will take over and speakup goes to sleep,
9 so espeakup will not speak.
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11 gnome-speech has an espeak use flag, but you don't need to set it, since
12 it is the default.
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14 William
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16 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:17:04PM -0400, James Homuth wrote:
17 > Will the espeakup connector work with Orca as well, or will different use
18 > flags be required for that? Also, I thought I read somewhere of an espeak
19 > use flag. Is that not accomplishing the same thing, or am I reading the
20 > wrong information?
21 >
22 > -----Original Message-----
23 > From: William Hubbs [mailto:williamh@g.o]
24 > Sent: May 27, 2009 11:05 PM
25 > To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
26 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Best use flags for...
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31 > Hi James,
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33 > I would first recommend at least the following use flags:
34 >
35 > accessibility alsa portaudio
36 >
37 > For software speech, after you have the kernel configured, compiled and
38 > installed, while you are in the croot, give this command:
39 >
40 > emerge espeakup
41 >
42 > That will install the espeakup connector and speakup.
43 >
44 > Then, add this line to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:
45 >
46 > speakup_soft
47 >
48 > Then, give this command:
49 >
50 > rc-update add espeakup default
51 >
52 > That will set espeakup to start automatically.
53 >
54 > Let me know if you have any questions.
55 >
56 > Thanks,
57 >
58 > - --
59 > William Hubbs
60 > gentoo accessibility team lead
61 > williamh@g.o
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74 William Hubbs
75 gentoo accessibility team lead
76 williamh@g.o
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