Re: [orca-list] No speech in Voxin with Gnome-Speech

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hi,
GRML uses ALSA by default but voxin (or more correctly IBMtts) uses OSS 
for output. Did you remember to do the following to make viavoice 
gnome-speech driver use ALSA:
Edit the file 
/usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Viavoice.server and 
modify the line which contains:
type="exe location="viavoice-synthesis-driver"
So that the location will use the ALSA-OSS emulation (I choose to use 
the aoss script with the viavoice synthesis-driver but you can add a 
library to the LD_PRELOAD variable). If using aoss the location would 
change to:
aoss /usr/bin/viavoice-synthesis-driver

Also ensure that aoss is actually installed (I think GRML does include 
it by default but just check.

Michael Whapples
On 23/12/42 19:59, Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> this morning I installed Voxin, and I tried to start it with
> Gnome-speech.
> I can see the driver and the voice settings in the speech tab of Orca,
> but when I select the driver Orca is silent.
> I cannot change the voice settings to German, I always get pushed back to
> the American voice. But it does not speak too.
> Voxin works with SD, however I cannot adjust punctuation; Orca does not
> control it.
> Any hints?
> I use GRML with Gnome 2.22 and Orca 2.25.91.
> Hermann
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