urgent: Ubuntu 9.04 high-speed speech problem

[luke Davis]

Update: I will still get this if I re-install, which I may do.

However for now, I have dist-upgraded within jaunty.  At that, orca 
produced no sound at all.
I installed sox, and trying to play an mp3 file got me no sound at all.
I installed aumixer, and changed the system volume from 0 to 100.
The mp3 plaied, but orca still wouldn't speak.  Rebooting yet again got me 
a system with seemingly no sound.

So maybe 9.04 is not as functional as I thought.

figuring I have nothing to lose, I am purging pulseaudio.

Luke

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, luke Davis wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I have recently had to reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop, and went with 9.04.  
> Starting to regret it, since I wanted LVM, but the installer doesn't 
> include it, but that's neither here nor there.
> 
> My urgent usability problem is: orca is starting when I alt-F2 and type 
> orca, but it says everything at an incomprehensible high speed, as 
> described previously on this list.
> 
> I have tried the "touch ~/.pulse_a11y_nostart" solution oft-described on 
> these lists, but it had absolutely no effect.
> 
> I need this laptop for a job in a few hours--are there any other solutions 
> which might be implemented, since the touch option doesn't work?
> 
> an "ls .pulse*" gets:
> 
> .pulse_a11y_nostart  .pulse-cookie
> 
> .pulse:
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:default-sink
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:default-source
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:device-volumes.i486-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:runtime
> 1f9aa7f71fe9e9c03ed0552a4b2b0d12:stream-volumes.i486-pc-linux-gnu.gdbm
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
>