Re: [orca-list] Speech Dispatcher on Ubuntu 8.10 with Alsa?

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hi List,
On Mo, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:30:05 +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Anthony Sales wrote:
> > For Christmas I would like a step by step guide to getting Speech-Dispatcher
> > working with Alsa on Ubuntu 8.10 with multi-channel sound support. 
>
> Hello Anthony,
>
> I just booted Vinux 1.2 CD on my notebook with Intel HDA soundcard and I
> was able to get Orca speaking through Speech Dispatcher over ALSA with
> totem playing an mp3 at the same time.
>
> What I did:
>   sudo apt-get install speech-dispatcher python-speechd
>   sudo gedit /etc/defaults/speech-dispatcher (overwrite 'no' to 'yes')
>   sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
 
> Then disabled PulseAudio in System/Preferences/Sessions,
> set everything to ALSA in System/Preferences/Sound/Devices
> and disabled all sound effects in System/Preferences/Sound/Sounds
>
> The last is probably not necessary, but it caused ESD to block the sound
> device.  I believe there is a way to force ESD to use ALSA as well to be
> able to have system souns, but this is another story...

sudo apt-get install libesd-alsa0
Then you don't need to disable system sounds.

 
> Then I restarted the Gnome session.  I had a problem in session startup,
> since the session still tried to start pulseaudio-session, which was not
> there anymore.  I guess it is possible to get around this by
> uninstalling some other components, such as pulseaudio-module-*.

sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio
It works and you don't need a failsave system etc!

HTH.
Halim


> Anyway, I started a failsafe session and I was able to start Speech
> Dispatcher:
>
>   sudo /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
>   spd-say hello
>
> I heard Hello from Espeak.  Orca preferences had the Speech Dispatcher
> option (in Speech System!!!), so I switched to espeak over SD and chose
> English.  Then I ran totem and started an mp3 playback.  Orca was still
> speaking while the mp3 was playing.
>
> Best regards, Tomas
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