Ok Linux people.
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@stevenscott Sorry, i cannot understand what you mean
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@stevenscott This is an extreeeeeeeeemely broad question.
1. What distro
2. You say installed orca, but how? From a package repo? Built from source?
3. There are distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, I believe Manjaro and I'm sure others that already have Orca? So why did you install it? Because it wasn't there, or because you wanted the latest version that doesn't exist in the package repositories.
4. What desktop?
5. Pulseaudio or Pipewire?
6. Do you get other sounds?I'm not sure I'm the one to help you, because I personally hold the opinion that Desktop linux accessibility sucks rocks, and I don't go near it anymore, but I think these questions will probably be asked by more knowledgeable folks. Now, command line / headless linux, such as a server, all day long.
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@stevenscott What distribution you using?
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@stevenscott What distribution are you using, and on what hardware?
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Distro hopping is the "turning it off and turning it on again" of linux.
https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/
There is also the espeak command which works from the command line.
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@stevenscott You gotta sacrifice 3 chickens and a goat; and chant our dark mantra 5x, "I use arch btw" /s
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@stevenscott Silly question but I don't think anything explained it anywhere to us: Have you logged out and back in? I think sometimes Orca doesn't pick up on stuff that was running before it was started. Might be worth trying.
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@stevenscott Silly question but I don't think anything explained it anywhere to us: Have you logged out and back in? I think sometimes Orca doesn't pick up on stuff that was running before it was started. Might be worth trying.
@stevenscott (disclaimer: we're not blind and I barely know how to use Orca. The most we've used it for is very basic fumbling-around screenreader testing stuff. I have no idea how the navigation system works, or on any screenreader for that matter.)
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This usually points to the speech backend stopping, not Orca itself. The most common culprit is Speech Dispatcher.
Run this first (Terminal):
systemctl --user restart speech-dispatcher
orca --replaceThen test Orca again.
If it still speaks for only a few seconds, send the output of (Terminal):
systemctl --user status speech-dispatcher --no-pagerThat will show whether the speech service is crashing, disabled, or failing to connect.
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@stevenscott if you run it from the terminal, does it give you any useful error messages that you can search?
Edit: I should have waited for "load more replies" to appear, and pushed that, and read things, before asking my question. Freely disregard
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@stevenscott Ah it happened to me, I never understood how and why.
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@stevenscott You gotta sacrifice 3 chickens and a goat; and chant our dark mantra 5x, "I use arch btw" /s
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depending on your os and desktop environment it may just not work. i remember when i used arch with kde it only worked well in the terminal. otherwise it did just what you're describing. now i'm on debian with bspwm and it works perfectly (or at least as perfectly as orca tends to work)
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@stevenscott I don't know. I'm a sighted linux user and have never gotten orca to work properly.
This is one of the things #Linux really needs to do better on. A lot better.
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So thanks to Claude Code I was able to get it to install Orca, update the distribution and install Piper TTS so we are at least functional. The rest is a steep learning curve!
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So thanks to Claude Code I was able to get it to install Orca, update the distribution and install Piper TTS so we are at least functional. The rest is a steep learning curve!
@stevenscott What distribution are you using that you didn't have talkback?
