Since the eSpeak makefile contains lines for both portaudio and
pulseaudio, is there not a way to compile for both in order to have
a fallback mechanism? What would happen if I uncommented the
pulseaudio line without commenting out the portaudio line. Are they
mutually exclusive?
Also, I thought of writing a wrapper script around eSpeak itself
that would pass the command tail to eSpeak with the option to output
to a wav file in /dev/shm and play it using paplay if pulseaudio is
running. If not, the command tail would simply be passed to eSpeak
unmodified. Could this work with gnome-speech or am I just spinning
my wheels? Is libgnome-speech using the eSpeak command or is it
using libespeek? Would there be a way to modify the wrapper script
for espeak-synthesis-driver to perform this function? And would I
take an extreme latency hit by doing this, even though I am
considering using /dev/shm because it resides in RAM rather than
using /temp or similar?
Meanwhile, I plan to file a bug against speech-dispatcher so
hopefully I can get its sudden death problem resolved. I definitely
would prefer using it, especially for its ability to use eSpeak's
capital letter click rather than a change in pitch or volume, and
Orca doesn't support this feature natively. Where is the best place
to file this bug? I seem to have lost the sd web address and can't
remember if there is a bug report system in place there. The bug, at
least sometimes, appears to be in the espeak module itself, since
sometimes the dummy module starts speaking in its place. However,
this isn't always the case.
Thanks for your help,
Lorenzo
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Great Goddess Isis,
Thou who art above the stars,
Grant us peace and love.
--Lorenzo Taylor