Re: [orca-list] speech dispatcher with orca

["Alonzo" <mariachiac aim com>]

Hello Michael,
Yes, I'm a new commer to linux. I'll try this for Ubuntu. If there is a
better distro that I can install from cd, Any recommendations are welcomed.
I am choosing linux since I am able ot install it with out sited assistance.

Alonzo

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Reiser [mailto:metalhead1009000 gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:59 AM
To: Michael Whapples
Cc: Alonzo; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] speech dispatcher with orca

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello Alonzo,
> > From what you have said I assume you are a new comer to Linux, sorry 
> > if
> this is wrong.
>
> There are a few things you might want to do, some you will need to do, 
> to get speech-dispatcher working as you want.
>
> First of all the error message you get is due to the speech-dispatcher 
> server not running. You can run it as your current user by running 
> speech-dispatcher (I can't remember what the ubuntu security settings 
> are, you may need to start speech-dispatcher with the sudo command (eg.
> sudo speech-dispatcher)). I think you should be able to start 
> speech-dispatcher as a system wide service by running 
> /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
>
> Before you start speech-dispatcher you probably will need to configure 
> its settings. Edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf for general 
> speech-dispatcher settings (eg. output modules used, default rate, 
> default voice, etc), and edit the relevant files for the output 
> modules you want in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/. These files 
> follow the standard of the hash (#) symbol meaning the line is a 
> comment. These files are fairly well commented to help in configuring 
> speech-dispatcher, and there are examples of lines in there (commented
> out) for each setting.
>
> There is one area which may be problematic on ubuntu, and that is the 
> audio output system to be used by the various speech-dispatcher modules.
> If you are running speech-dispatcher as your user then use pulse audio 
> for output. If you decide to run speech-dispatcher as a system wide 
> server then things are much harder as you will need to reconfigure 
> ubuntu to not use pulseaudio and tell speech-dispatcher to use alsa 
> (how to configure ubuntu to not use pulseaudio is beyond what I am 
> willing to say as I don't actually use ubuntu, and might get quite 
> involved, so I recommend you to run speech-dispatcher as a user 
> process unless you know what you are doing or are likely to use 
> something such as speakup which may require speech-dispatcher outside 
> your user sessions). It might be easier to get speech-dispatcher 
> working on a different Linux distribution, but if you are going to 
> continue with ubuntu and speech-dispatcher, then I hope an ubuntu user 
> can help you get this set up.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 22:46 -0500, Alonzo wrote:
>    
>> Hello list,
>> My name is Alonzo. I've been using ubuntu for about a week and rather 
>> enjoy it. I'm having trouble installing speech dispatcher or perhaps 
>> getting to work. I've installed everything successfully from the 
>> sinaptecs package manager. Then, when I go to the terminal and type 
>> hte command "spd-say" and hte the text I wanted spoken to me the 
>> terminal says
>> client: speech dispatcher Failed to open: connection refused.
>> Please adivce me what to do.
>>
>> Alonzo
>>
>>
>>
>>      
>
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>    
I decided to forgo running as a system wide service as it seems to be to
much trouble. Instead I'll just run it when I log in. My question is is
right now I'm running it with orca. When I restart my system, will I get
speech? When I run speech-dispatcher willl orca start talking again? Thanks,

Mike