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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> > 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."
> Exactly! Restarting the system solved this; perhaps relogging to Gnome
> would have done it. But who thinks of this, when you a bit nervous about
> resetting the whole speech output.

Heh - yeah.  Living on the edge can be nerve wracking.

> > "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.
> Which system? I've heard of some instabilities of PulseAudio.

I've used it on Solaris and I believe Mike has used it on Hardy.  Note 
that this isn't meant to be a promotion of PulseAudio (I don't know all 
the details about it), but it does seem to help with device contention 
problems.

Will