Re: [orca-list] [Off topic] system sounds on intrepid

[mk360 <rexxe tutopia com>]

With alsa this can been solved using alsaoss as described in orca's wiki 
(I've used it under feisty, gutsy, hardy and sometimes on intrepid).
On 04/10/08 15:58, Rob Hill wrote:
> Hello Bram and list,
>
> I don't have your message to hand, but I seem to remember that you're
> using the ibmtts synthesiser.  I use this via voxin, and I believe
> somewhere on the voxin web site it mentions that this synthesiser has
> to use the sound devices exclusively.  So it's a voxin problem, if it
> can be seen as such.
>
> http://voxin.oralux.net/index.php
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
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> Bram Duvigneau writes:
>   >  Hi,
>   >
>   >  mk360 wrote:
>   >  >>  On 03.10.2008 at 14:40:50 Halim Sahin<halim sahin t-online de>  wrote:
>   >  >>
>   >  >>>  Hi
>   >  >>>  Are you using espeak with gnomespeech?
>   >  >>>  It seems that espeak wasn't compield with alsa support.
>   >  >>>  Install alsa-oss and edit /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver.
>   >  >>>  There you need to add aoss before /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-drvier.bin
>   >  >>
>   >  >>  Caution! I think we talk about Intrepid and there is Pulseaudio
>   >  >>  installed too. So there should be no need for alsa-oss, but one should
>   >  >>  deactivate Pulseaudio in order to use Alsa as standard sound device.
>   >  >
>   >  >  Yes, I'm using intrepid with alsa becouse work's better with speech
>   >  >  dispatcher and I've deactivated pulseaudio.
>   >
>   >  I haven't any system sounds either. Yesterday I set up a bunch of sounds
>   >  for low battery alert and various events, but they aren't playing. I
>   >  searched for some bug reports, and found some things about a grayed out
>   >  sound configuration screen, but that's not the case here. I'm able to
>   >  preview the sounds and using PulseAudio, I'm able to use espeak/orca,
>   >  music and other things just fine. So, the sound setup seems to be ok,
>   >  however no gnome sound events are playing. Did someone already file a
>   >  bug report for this? With the final version of Ubuntu 8.10 coming quite
>   >  soon, these things shouldn't happen anymore.
>   >
>   >  Bram
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