Re: [orca-list] Orca and Arch Linux problem on VirtualBox

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I dont know the details about pulseaudio vs virtualbox sound device 
issue but you might try running
spd-say hello
in order to verify whether this might really be a incompatibility with 
speech-dispatcher and pulseaudio.
You might just like to temporarily switch speech-dispatcher output to 
alsa in order to get any speech output at all. Since pulseaudio is 
taking over all alsa input sinks by default.
You may get a degraded performance but still you might get a chance to 
do something.

Maybe I will try to update my arch running in a vm in order to see that 
issue with sound device. On a real hardware it appears to be running 
well for me, I have updated yesterday morning.


Greetings


Peter


On 26.03.2013 12:03, Hrvoje Katić wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using Arch Linux x86_64 in a VirtualBox on a Windows host with 
> all components updated to their latest versions. However, I am 
> experiencing some problems that prevent Orca from speaking.
> First, there's an issue with PulseAudio 3.0 that breaks sound output 
> in VirtualBox. Therefore, I replaced it with pulseaudio-git from AUR. 
> After that, I've got sound in Gnome, and I know that because I can 
> here Gnome sound events playing. However, when I start Orca, there's 
> no speech output. I confirmed that python2-speechd is also installed. 
> I can also confirm that Orca is started, because I have some vision 
> and I see the splash screen and Orca main window, and even preferences 
> dialog opens correctly. But as I said, Orca will not come up speaking, 
> although it's running. What I assume is that Speech Dispatcher 0.7 is 
> not compatible with latest pulseaudio-git. Is this correct? If it is, 
> then what can I do to get Orca speaking?
> I also tried to downgrade pulseaudio and libpulse to 2.1, and I ended 
> up with conflicting files error. So I am stuck here.
>
> What can I do now?
>
> Thanks,
> Hrvoje
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