Can't find how to disable Trisquel voice

Settings->Universal Access->Seeing. Turn off the screen reader there.

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In System Settings, select Universal Access, and untick Screen Reader.
The voice is that of Orca, a bit of software that makes Trisquel more
friendly to blind/ visually impaired users.

HTH,

Dave

On 08/29/2015 04:18 PM, name at domain wrote:
> Everything I click on has a robotic voice describing what it is
> that I have selected.
>
> Could someone direct me to the right place to where I can disable
> this setting?
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Great. I'm not blind, and I don't want to wake up the whole neighborhood. How do I shut off the screen reader during login ?

I tried:
> sudo mv libcanberra-ready-sound.desktop libcanberra-ready-sound.desktop.bak<

I also used Universal Access to turn off the screen reader, but it persists at the login prompt.

And my system doesn't have any "reader" function associated with Orca. I used catfish to search on "orca" in my file system.

Pressing 'ctrl+s' in the login prompt will toggle screen reader off.

Dave_Hunt suggested that I turn the robovoice off at login. I just turn off the speakers, but that doesn't address the problem, which doesn't occur in half a dozen other Trisquel installations of mine ... if only I knew what I did then, other than just turning it off in System Settings, which worked a few months ago but not any longer.

Having Orca enabled by default for everyone is really annoying since most people do not need or use it. Maybe don't have it automatically load whenever a newer ISO or full release comes out.

Trisquel comes with a lot of stuff that most folks won't need but which maintain the portability of the LiveDVD, which is an essential requirement to facilitate wide distribution of the Trisquel OS. I think what we're muttering about is the difficulty of turning off that robo voice ... which apparently was recently made even more difficult, as it was once a simple task to stop it in one of the System Settings menus, and all the rest of my own Trisquel installations don't do that any more.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/81960/how-do-i-stop-orca-from-starting-up-on-login ?

As amenex and SuperTramp83 mentioned, the orca screen reader is useful for better widespread adoption of the Trisquel OS. Also, SuperTramp's recommendation of opening the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T is the default shortcut for Trisquel) and issuing

"sudo apt-get purge gnome-orca"

would be the most appropriate response to the OP's question. Using the Ctrl+S command does not remove the package (reasoning: if you are turning it off, it is unlikely you are going to use it at any point in the future). Along the same lines, issuing the "sudo apt-get remove gnome-orca" would also be less optimal because it will leave the orca configuration/preferences files.

The "sudo apt-get purge gnome-orca" command is the most straightforward and useful for those who never intend to use the orca screen reader.