Re: the orca screen reader in f14

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On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:35 -0400, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm a blind Linux user and i'm not sure if this is the right list. I
> was wondering if you could package speech-dispatcher with orca instead
> of gnome-speech? The reason why I ask is because orca is working a lot
> with speech-dispatcher for better performance and by using
> speech-dispatcher orca works better with pulseaudio. Orca does not
> work well with gnome-speech if pulseaudio is implamented into the os
> it causes orca to be delayed with how fast it responds when keyboard
> commands are given to read the screen or do other actions. In f13 I'm
> running now but that is only because I had to tweek it to get better
> performance. If this change was made to speech-dispatcher this would
> give a better experience out of the box for new users or even blind
> users who want to switch to Fedora or at least try it out. Thanks for
> your time and help and all the hard work.


Hey, thanks for pointing this out. Investigating this switch was
somewhere very deep on my todo list for a long time. 

Have you done this switch on your system and can give me some hints as
to whats involved ? Is the speech-dispatcher package we have in F14 set
up to work out of the box ?


Matthias

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