Re: [orca-list] speech-dispatcher and libao

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi
I'm still trying to figure out what's going wrong in this situation. If you figure it out, can you please 
post the answer to the list?



On Jan 16, 2010, at 01:07, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Exactly as you describe, I am trying to run via voice in a 64 karmic machine.
> It seems to owrk ok if I switch to espeak.
> Thanks.
>
> On 01/15/2010 11:04 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > Hi
> > First, make sure default_driver is set properly in /etc/libao.conf. If using pulseaudio it should be set 
> > to pulse, if using ALSA then it should be set to alsa. I believe Ubuntu by default sets it to alsa, which 
> > is a bit odd considering they've essentially gotten fully behind Pulseaudio.
> > Secondly, I've noticed this when trying to use a 32-bit ibmtts synthesizer on a 64-bit Linux system. I 
> > have all the libraries correct and installed in both their 32-bit and 64-bit forms, and yet 32-bit use of 
> > libao via the sd_ibmtts module doesn't work. A fully 64-bit synthesizer and speech dispatcher module, 
> > however, is able to use libao just fine. Are you trying to run a configuration similar to this? I haven't 
> > yet figured out what the problem is in this case.
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2010, at 17:50, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote:
> >
> >   
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm trying to run speech-dispatcher configure to use libao in my karmic box.
> > > I am receiving the following error:
> > > libao ERROR: error opening libao dev
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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