Re: [orca-list] should test-speech speak?

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Peter:

Yes, test-speech should speak, though not its first few screens. In
fact, if test-speech isn't speaking, we need to figure out why and fix
that before moving on to Orca.

Question: Do you have the gnome-speak-ibmtts rpm installed? Do:

rpm -q gnome-speech-ibmtts

If not, you can get it at http://SpeakupModified.Org. Please note that
the version on our web site, while marked 0.4.16, will run with later
versions of gnome-speech. Also, while a 32-bit driver, it will interface
with 64-bit gnome-speech, if you're using that.

Janina

Peter Rayner writes:
> I am trying to activate orca under fc8 on a DELL latitude-D430.  Here
> is the information from yum info
> Installed Packages
> Name   : orca
> Arch   : i386
> Version: 2.21.3
> Release: 1.fc9
>
> This doesn't appear to be speaking.
>
> I am running emacspeak on a virtual console and can run orca -t fine
> and do the set-up.
> Emacspeak is using ttsynth which is listed as a potential
> synthesizer.  
>
> test-speech also lists ttsynth  (well it calls it viavoice) as:
> 2: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Viavoice:proto0.3
>
> I follow through all the selections then, for example, choose the
> callback test ... followed by longlasting and complete silence.
> The documentation on the orca site suggests testing the relevant
> driver (/usr/bin/viavoice-synthesis-driver)
> which is also quite silent.  
> This is when I discovered that fc-8 didn't have my beloved strace
> utility to check a file permission failure.  
> Now I've about run out of ideas.  I don't *think* it's emacspeak
> because it still didn't talk with all instances of outloud killed.
> I suspect that this is a rather basic error in my set-up, probably to
> do with the sound system.
> Anyone have any ideas?  Are there any debug flags I can run on
> /usr/bin/viavoice-synthesis-driver?
> thanks in advance
> Peter
>
>  
>
>
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