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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Hermann:

I haven't tried in a while, but the "/usr/bin/aoss" trick should work. 
There might be a 'sticky' Bonobo thing hanging around that remembered 
the old GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Espeak.server file.  Try logging 
out, running 'bonobo-slay', and then logging back in.

BTW, I've heard that pulseaudio support is helping address the notion of 
device contention. As a result of this, you might not run into 
gnome-speech device contention issues when you're using a system that is 
using pulseaudio.

Will

Hermann wrote:
> 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
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