Re: [orca-list] trouble with speech dispatcher on ubuntu 13.4

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Rusty,

To be honest the Festival voices are more trouble than they are worth.
They don't work very well with Pulse which Gnome and Unity uses, and
you will have a devil of a time making them work with Orca. So I would
stay clear of them until you become a more experienced hand at Linux.
ESpeak is fine for a new user I think.

As far as Speech Dispatcher crashing I'm not sure what is causing it,
but that is definitely not cool as that is the speech drivers Orca
uses for speech output. You could see if there is an update available
by doing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install speech-dispatcher
in Gnome Terminal to see if there are any updates for Speech Dispatcher.

Cheers!


On 5/14/13, Rusty Perez <rustys lists gmail com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I just upgraded to ubuntu 13.4.
> I'm getting an error with speech dispatcher crashing. it also mentions
> Espeak.
> Now, this is an upgrade, not a fresh install. My helpful friend who
> installed 12.10 wanted to install the festival voices, and also
> installed speech dispatcher i think. So, I'm wondering if it's even
> necessary at all.
> Please let me know your thoughts. I'll also search the archives.
> thanks!
> Rusty
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