Re: [orca-list] Orca And Multiple Audio Devices

[Peter Vágner <peter v datagate sk>]

Hello all,
I am aware of the fact with speech dispatcher it is controllable. But I 
haven't tryed doing this with espeak.
But I think I have got some other problem related to this.
When I am starting my system it's chosing devices according to some 
hidden magic or at least I can work out what's going on.
I have 2 sound cards sound blaster 24 bit (ca0101 module) and on board 
intel chipset. Sometimes device reffered to as alsa's hw:0 uses sb live 
some other times on-board sound device.
Has anybody got an idea?
I was reading some alsa docs and trying to alter alsa's configuration, I 
was also trying to alter order of the modules loaded into the kernel but 
I am either doing all wrong or there is no solution to this issue. All 
the times it seems to behave as per default. so I have reverted all the 
changes.
It's the same with ubuntu 7.04 and also 7.10 which I have just upgraded to.

Peter



Willie Walker  wrote:
> Hi Janina:
>
> The decision isn't made by Orca or gnome-speech.  :-(  Instead,
> gnome-speech relies upon the underlying TTS engine to make the choice.
> So, I'm afraid this ends up coming down to needing to know more about
> the engine you are using and if/how to tell it what to use.
>
> If the community moves forward with a replacement for gnome-speech
> (e.g., speech dispatcher or something similar to it), these kinds of
> considerations definitely need to be made.  It would be fantastic to
> allow better control over where the speech is being sent.
>
> Will
>
> PS - I realize speech dispatcher does this to some extent today.
>
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I'm wondering what controls which audio device Gnome-Speech and Orca
> > will use? In particular, how might I indicate I want a particular device
> > to be used?
> >
> > I know that that, when I boot and log onto the desktop, Orca will speak
> > through my first audio device, alsa's hw:0. However, depending on what
> > else I have done on this system with two audio cards, eventually Orca
> > will use the second device, alsa hw:1. I would like to direct TTS output
> > back to hw:0 without rebooting. How can I do that?
> >
> > Janina
>
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