RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread John covici
As an update to this thread, I found out that when I was using startx or xinit, gnome was not starting at all and this is why I was not getting speech -- no gnome-session or anything -- when I ran gdm and logged in, things worked much better. on Tuesday 02/20/2007 Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier

Re: Multilingual synthesis

2007-02-20 Thread Tomas Cerha
Peter Parente wrote: >> Right. The problem is, not a single free engine covers the different >> languages I need. So I have to change voice and driver (festival and >> espeak from speech-dispatcher). And don't you get sound device >> blocking problems? > > Understood. We don't support switching of

Re: Multilingual synthesis

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Parente
> Maybe this is related, maybe not. There was a SoC project last year > "guessing language component" for OpenOffice. For example see > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@lingucomponent.openoffice.org/msg00958.html There's also the universal encoding detector (http://chardet.feedparser.org/) based on

Re: Multilingual synthesis

2007-02-20 Thread juan rafael fernández
2007/2/20, Peter Parente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tomas wrote > > I believe that the solution to this would be to: > > 1. Use the language information wherever possible Maybe this is related, maybe not. There was a SoC project last year "guessing language component" for OpenOffice. For example see

Re: Multilingual synthesis

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Parente
> I believe that the solution to this would be to: > 1. Use the language information wherever possible > 2. Provide a mechanism to switch the language manually Hi Tomas, This is the solution we have implemented in the development version of LSR, at least for IBM TTS engine as a proof of concept

RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Dorado Martínez , Francisco Javier
Hi, You have to logout and login back in order to accessibility support take effect. Regards Javier > -Mensaje original- > De: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: martes, 20 de febrero de 2007 14:05 > Para: Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gn

RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread John covici
When I just tried to run orca -- I got a bonobo generalerror either orca -t from a text console, or orca & from a bash with DISPLAY set. How can I get accessibility going in gnome? on Tuesday 02/20/2007 Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi all > > John, how are you l

RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread John covici
But it already says -- at least some times -- "welcome to focus tracking mode". Does that not mean its running? I did orca -t from a text console and it said that accessability features of gnome were now enabled. What can I do now? on Tuesday 02/20/2007 Dorado Martínez, Francisco Javier([EMAIL

RE: Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Dorado Martínez , Francisco Javier
Hi all John, how are you launching Orca? You can launch it in a gnome-terminal by typing alt + f2 and then write gnome-terminal plus enter key. In that terminal launch Orca by typing Orca& Now Orca should say "welcome to Orca" if it stops could you tell us what output gives orca after launchi

Problems with accessibility using gnome as built by gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread John covici
Hi. I have a gentoo installation and I installed gnome with whatever accessibility I could get by saying USE=accessibility . Now I am having problems using orca with this install. For one thing, if I run test-speech I get multiple voices at the same time! I have festival started, I have the sof