Re: [orca-list] Orca is silent after updating Gnome-Speech

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Fr 04. Apr 2008 um 18:05:28 schrieb Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>:
> Hi Hermann:
>
> Two quick things to check (in addition to stuff you can find under the  
> "Troubleshooting" section of http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech):
>
> 1) Does 'espeak' work?  If not, eSpeak is broken.
>
> 2) Does test-speech work?  If not, the gnome-speech driver for eSpeak  
> isn't working and we'll need to figure out what went wrong with the  
> build/install (i.e., did you use --prefix=/usr).

Everything is different: Orca speaks with Gnome-speech and Espeak, provided you stop SD. Since SD uses Alsa, 
this blocks 
the OSS output.
Furthermore I had to realize, that in /usr/lib/bonobo/server the Gnome-speech file for Espeak has been set 
bakc to use 
with OSS only.
So I redid the instruction of the Wiki to make it work with alsa-oss. But unfortunately this seems no longer 
possible. 
Orca continues speaking, but neither SD, nor any media player is working along with Orca. I use SD together 
with the 
latest brltty and I would like to use media players without Orca stopping to speak. So what's wrong now? The 
line in the 
GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Espeak.server file reads as follows:
type="exe" location="/usr/bin/aoss /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver"
Hermann