spd-say "Hello world\n" -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sat, 1 Apr 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Okay, did a little searching and found the sleep command, which I used > to confirm that Orca is getting launched when I try running the script > I'm using. In fact, it seems that Orca remains active even once I > close the appliaction I launched and the script finishes, and only > gets unloaded when I logout of the tty that executed the script with > sudo kill on orca's process ID apparantly failing. > > As for spd-say, I'm not sure I'm using it right, but trying to run > > spd-say "hello world" > > or > > spd-say -O > > just results in the console hanging on a blank line until I ctrl+c. > Granted, doing the same from a KNoppix live session, where the script > works as expect, spd-say "hello world" does nothing and spd-say -O > prings espeak-ng to the screen. > > Forgot to check at-spi while I was booted into Debian, but it sounds > like the problem might be with speech dispatcher. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list