Hi.
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:01:25PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
>
> Kenny, can this new script co-exist alongside Orca's original firefox
> script?
>
> If so, I may see about getting it, as well as the firevox extension
> packaged for feisty, and may make edgy packages for it available as
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:23:06PM EST, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Most of my problems were caused by Orca'f default Firefox script getting
> in the way. I copied the self_voicing.py script to my
> ~/.orca/orca-scripts directory and renamed it to Firefox.py.
> This fixed most of my problems and Firefox 2
I'm replying to myself with an update.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:23:53PM -0600, kenny wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I tried it using Orca for speech output. The first problem I've found
> is read to end isn't working. It starts to read and then appears to
> hang.
> I have notice that I seem to get more inf
Hi.
I tried it using Orca for speech output. The first problem I've found
is read to end isn't working. It starts to read and then appears to
hang.
I have notice that I seem to get more information from Firefox now just
using it as I would normally do. For example, I know hear if a link is
exte
Charles, the FireVox guy, added support to it to use Orca as its
synthesis engine. It's not the ultimate wonderful solution (read: it's
a hack), but the idea was to prevent Orca and FireVox for competing for
resources.
It's been a while since I played with that bit, so I'm not sure how well
it wo
If only FireVox could use speech-dispatcher or something instead of
FreeTTS. It would be a lot easier to install and could be made to sound
a lot better. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't FreeTTS a Java
version of flite or something like that? I just abandoned
flite/festival for eSpeak
I just spoke with Charles, the author, and he would prefer if someone
(or this list) would handle Linux support issues since he doesn't have a
Linux box. He's still interested in general usability issues of Fire Vox
itself -- just not specific Linux compatibility details.
He says that if you ha
For browsing on Linux, people can try the Fire Vox
extension. I've CC'd
the author, Charles Chen, who can help with any questions.
Note, I haven't heard any feedback on how well it works. A
few people
should give it a try and let the list know if it helps them.
It's
possible to redefine the key
