Hi, Darragh: Speakup is doing much better these days vis a vis Orca. It will get out of the way on its own in your gui console. The issues of sharing tts between the two are a somewhat different story. I believe it's only currently possible to do that with speech-dispatcher and speechd_up. I have no direct knowledge of how well that might work. My current solution is TTSynth with its speakup-connector for Speakup, and Espeak with gnome-speech for Orca. That is working well over a single audio device, and I'm also able to play most sounds via that same device--but there's a rub there, so read on. 1.) In order to allow my ordinary user access to audio devices while running TTSynth, I loginto one console and start a longish aplay. The important thing is that my ordinary user own the audio device--therefore the long aplay--while the connector is start. Hokey, bit it workss. The real solution is buried somewhere in pam.d, we think. If I do the above, I continue able to play audio via the default alsa device. Audio on the gui is a bit different. Some system sounds, such as the new gdm-2.22 playing of /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav invariably come over one of my other devices. I suspect if those devices were not present, I simply wouldn't hear the gdm play output. Similarly, my Gnome system sounds are coming from a nondefault device. But, espeak over gnome-speech-espeak is on the default device, as is ttsynth in the console. Note also that issues around pulseaudio remain unresolved. Our advice, on the Speakup Modified Home Page, stands for now. Dump pluseaudio until we learn how to get more control, and especially how to have audio in console only sessions. hth Janina Darragh writes: > Greetings all, > > I'm thinking of doing some work with Fedora 9. It's downloading at the moment so.... who knows. > > My only question for the moment is, when I used V7 with the excelent TTSynth synthesizer for both Speakup and Orca, there were a few problems. Pluss, Speakup didn't let go of the num pad when in Gnome so that caused all sorts of work arounds and problems. > > Is this still the case in version 9? > > Thanks > > > Darragh ? H?iligh > www.digitaldarragh.com > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
