orca nolonger speaksL

[Robert Murray]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 09:03:45AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> I've just had a thought about why this is occurring. Espeak that will ship in gutsy final will 
> use portaudio v18 again, as portaudio v19 was giving troubles. V18 only uses oss, and since you 
> are running speech-dispatcher, portaudio v18 cannot talk to the oss device, as speech-dispatcher 
> is running. You will need to stop speech-dispatcher to use espeak with the gnome-speech driver.

Another alternative, which is working perfectly for me, is to divert espeak-synthesis-driver, and replace it with a script which uses aoss to run 
espeak-synthesis-driver.  See the list archives for a step by step explanation.

This allows espeak to use alsa, so you can use other audio apps.  I currently use orca, emacspeak and windows in virtualbox.

Would it be useful if I made a package for this?

Regards

Rob


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