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 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >