Re: [orca-list] Fedora and orca

["Darragh" <lists digitaldarragh com>]

Alonzo, 

Sorry, I meant to respond to your mail much earlier than now. 

Look at the FAQ section on the Orca website at http://live.gnome.org/Orca

For your convenience, I've extracted the relevant text below:

How do I get Orca to speak alongside other ALSA applications?
NOTE to Ubuntu Hardy users: Ubuntu Hardy is investigating the use of PulseAudio to take care of a lot of 
device contention. As a result, audio mixing should "just work" on Ubuntu Hardy and you shouldn't have to 
monkey around with this stuff. 

Hotly debated issue, It is not Orca's fault that it is set up like this, so the fix should be done elsewhere, 
but if you don't care about the politics and simply want it to work then: 

sudo apt-get install alsa-ossnow change directory: 

cd /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/now edit using your favorite editor: If you are using Espeak then modify: 

GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Espeak.serverand if you are using Festival: 

GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival.serverreplace "festival" for "espeak" if you wish to modify the 
festival synthesizer. On the third line of the file you will see (remember to use dashes instead of 
underscores): 

                type="exe" location="/usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver"replace this with: 

                type="exe" location="/usr/bin/aoss /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver"Note that if the alsa-oss 
package is not installed then you will have a broken system and wont have any speech output, so make sure it 
is installed. 

save the file, and restart Orca, now you can use mplayer and suchlike to output sound alongside Orca. 
Address:  http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Alonzo
Sent: 19 July 2008 06:31
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] Fedora and orca

Hello list,
Does anyone know how to make fedora mix sounds with gnome speech so I
can hear music and speech at the same time?

Alonzo

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