On 12/13/24 07:00, Charles Curley wrote:
orca is pulled in by "apt install task-xfce-desktop".
On January , 2022, I installed (via USB flash drive):
debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst
onto a 2.5" SATA III SSD (Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB) to create
laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com, my current daily driver. I have moved
the SSD through various machines, depending upon need and availability.
I have never explicitly requested nor enabled assistive technologies.
I have never heard text-to-speech.
I have accidentally pressed and held keys, and/or my KVM spaghetti may
have done the same, causing a pop-up that offered assistive technologies
("sticky keys"?). I have declined such offers.
Xfce Panel -> Applications -> Settings -> Accessibility -> Assistive
Technologies shows nothing enabled on any of the tabs. I do not see any
settings for text-to-speech.
Once a month, I take a raw image with dd(1) and then update:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get dist-upgrade
# apt-get autoclean
# apt-get autoremove
The current OS:
2024-12-13 09:02:53 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
STFW for Debian assistive technologies:
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/software
Attempting to guess package names for the software mentioned:
2024-12-13 09:39:37 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ dpkg-query --list xfce4 *eflite* espeak *festival* brltty *yasr* orca
*speech* *speak*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-===================-============-============================================================
un brltty <none> <none>
(no description available)
un cl-speech-dispatcher <none> <none>
(no description available)
un espeak <none> <none>
(no description available)
ii espeak-ng-data:amd64 1.50+dfsg-7+deb11u1 amd64
Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: speech data files
ii libespeak-ng1:amd64 1.50+dfsg-7+deb11u1 amd64
Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer: shared library
ii libspeechd2:amd64 0.10.2-2+deb11u2 amd64
Speech Dispatcher: Shared libraries
ii orca 3.38.2-2 all
Scriptable screen reader
un python-speechd <none> <none>
(no description available)
ii python3-speechd 0.10.2-2+deb11u2 all
Python interface to Speech Dispatcher
ii speech-dispatcher 0.10.2-2+deb11u2 amd64
Common interface to speech synthesizers
ii speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins:amd64 0.10.2-2+deb11u2 amd64
Speech Dispatcher: Audio output plugins
un speech-dispatcher-baratinoo <none> <none>
(no description available)
un speech-dispatcher-cicero <none> <none>
(no description available)
un speech-dispatcher-doc-cs <none> <none>
(no description available)
un speech-dispatcher-espeak <none> <none>
(no description available)
ii speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng 0.10.2-2+deb11u2 amd64
Speech Dispatcher: Espeak-ng output module
un speech-dispatcher-festival <none> <none>
(no description available)
un speech-dispatcher-flite <none> <none>
(no description available)
un speech-dispatcher-ibmtts <none> <none>
(no description available)
un speech-dispatcher-kali <none> <none>
(no description available)
dpkg-query: no packages found matching *eflite*
dpkg-query: no packages found matching *yasr*
ii xfce4 4.16 all
Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment
So, some assistive technologies are installed. I do not use them and
they do not bother me.
David
