Re: [orca-list] installed portaudio19 now how to get orca work with it?

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
1.  Ubuntu can work with Orca  out of the box.
2.  Portaudio is used by Espeak, so you use espeak, not portaudio.
You have the option of v18 or v19 where v19 has alsa support.
3.  In order to test you should have an espeak built against portaudio 19.
I think Luke Yellowitch said he did that for Gutsy, so you might be able 
to get a package.
The other option would be to recompile Espeak.
If you do that with your installed portaudio 19, and you make sure that 
you do not end up with the original espeak being run due to execution 
path issues, that would give you a working setup through portaudio 19 
without you having to change any of the other components.
Please also see the link provided by one of the other list members 
regarding Ubuntu and orca.
HTH, Willem


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, krishnakant Mane wrote:

> On 16/08/07, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Do you have espeak installed?
> I have ESpeek installed by default because I am using ubuntu fiesty
> which comes with orca.
> so I grabbed the source of just portaudio19 and did a configure make
> and make install as usual.
> so is it necessary to get ESpeek again and compile it even if I have
> it by default in ubuntu?
>
> > If not, grab the latest source from http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html,
> > copy the espeak portaudio 19 .h file as per the espeak instructions and
> > build espeak.
> > You then have several options of wich speech-dispatcher with the
> > gnome-speech speech-dispatcher driver is one, to get orca speaking with
> > espeak.
> I did not understand this setup method of using sd and ESpeek
> Kindly explain the above choice.  I thought speech dispatcher is a
> different way of speech out put and has nothing to do with ESpeek.  so
> how will speech dispatcher and espeek work together?
> are their any other choices without speech dispatcher?
> and can I get the speech dispatcher through apt-get install or do I
> need to build it through source as well?
> please explain me both the ways, with or without speech dispatcher.  I
> have heard that the speech dispatcher is still at beta as far as orca
> is concerned.
> so one major question I have is that is speech dispatcher a necessary
> requirement for getting all advantages including listening to music
> while orca is running?  I herd on the recent threads that it is the
> portaudio19 that makes this happen, so I believed that speech
> dispatcher is not needed.
> further more, we all know that orca is a bit stuttery and choppy in
> speech, I get the feeling that it was solved in some cases after
> switching over to port audio 19.
> if that is true then I just want orca to send its speech output to
> portaudio19 with my existing ESpeek and gnome-speech setup.
> so will that be possible and how?
> regards,
> Krishnakant.

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