Jerry Matheny wrote: > I'm not sure. I just connected the USB headset to the computer and > booted up the live cd with accessibility support so Orca should have > come up talking through it. Not sure what else I should try. Any help > would be appreciated. > Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by the above statement, but I posted on this list that the Ubuntu 7.10 instructions for starting Orca are wrong and won't work. I hope they fixed this in 8.04. I gave instructions for the correct keys to hit but I don't remember what they are anymore. You would have to search the list archives. Just booting up the CD and not doing anything won't work. You either have to hit some keys (arros and something else I think) at the boot menu or manually run Orca from within Gnome after it finishes booting in order to get Orca to actually work. Also, on my system, the volume was very low so I could hardly hear it until I figured out how to change the mixer settings. It could be working but you might not be hearing anything. If you have sighted help, that might get you started as that was the only way I found out that the instructions were wrong. On one computer I tried, Orca still wouldn't start even with the correct instructions. I still had to manually start it from within Gnome. To manually start it, wait about 10 minutes (yes, it takes a long time to boot), press Alt+F2, wait a few seconds, type "orca" and press Enter. That should start speech.
