Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:20:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how do I get Speech working with Firefox? Message-ID: <1219094410.4994.110.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20080818110442.14a2b30c@ayiin> References: <20080816214601.GA22011@thought.org> <20080817201725.3e7f6446@ayiin> <1219008050.4994.6.camel@localhost> <20080818110442.14a2b30c@ayiin>
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On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:04 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:20:50 -0700
> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:17 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:46:04 -0700
> > > Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Anybody know what I'm not doing right and that the java app
> > > > fails to produce speech from one of the firefox "applets"?
> > >
>
> { please keep the ML in the TO or CC of your emails, so others can help :) )
Sorry, Beto, I thought I had replied-to-all. ....
>
> > > Gary,
> > > it would help if you said what are you doing , and what isn't happening, so someone can say what are you doing, if anything, wrong.
> > >
> > > Just to try to make it a useful reply, you do have java support working on your ffox, right?
> > >
> > Yes, I installed the required java suite;
>
> and it is shown in about:plugins ?
>
> for example, mine shows :
>
> about:plugins
>
> Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_03-p4-b00
>
> File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
> Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_03
> [table follows showing all supported types ]
>
Yes, the "File name" is exactly what I had installed. It may have been
1.5 rather than 1.6 that you have. At any rate, after re-initialized
ff, there was this two menu-bar long (or perhaps only one, but in loud
colors [IMO]) and one option was "Speech". There was nothing I could do
to get any audio whatsoever.
I wound up writing the author who asked if I had the right plugin, and
more. The short version was that eventually I just dropped it. This
time I thought I'd check with the best and brightest list.
If you got firefox to echo any words, please tell me how!
> > I pulled down the speech deal,
>
> I still don't know what is this speech deal you mention.
>
Somewhere in the ff headers is a list of the newest applets. I think
there are/[were] two that gave speech capability. AH! Found it:
The URL : https://addons.mozilla.org and type in "speech" and yes, it's
"AccessiBar". That was the only one that seemed most likely.
While my main desktop [tao] portupgrades, I'm on my ubuntu server. I'll
see if something happens this time. Here and on my 7.0 FreeBSD server.
gary
> > then then I moused a few paragraphs and hit the Speech area, nada.
> >
>
> B
>
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