[orca-list] System Sounds in Debian

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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I know this was mentioned recently on the list but I too am
experiencing the same problem where I cannot hear system sounds but
every other media programs works fine.  I'm using gnome-speech with
espeak but even with orca turned off, I still hear no sounds.  In fact
as I installed gnome on this box for the first time under Debian and
started it up before Orca was configured and running, I heard no
system sounds.  When I look in the sound manager I changed all the
devices to ALSA; the previous defaults were AutoAudio or something
similar.  That had no effect.  The test buttons beside the devices
yielded a single tone but when I go to the sounds page and try the
various system events, no sound.  And like I said earlier, no sounds
from the actual events either.

I would consider using speech dispatcher instead but the punctuation
and capitalization is terrible.  I think gnome-speech does much better
in those areas.  Oh, when I looked for espeak-speech.driver in
/usr/bin, I find a binary file; someone earlier suggested adding aoss
to a command in there.  Espeak is also a binary.  Unless the
suggestion was to modify the program itself.

Actually, under my old slackware/dropline system, aoss yielded terible
results.  It just made a repeating puffing sound; it was completely
unusable; not sure what will happen here with Deb.
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