Re: [orca-list] speech-dispatcher, where else does it get its settings?

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

It's all this complication why some of us prefer to run speech
dispatcher as a system service.  In other words, turn off autospawning
and configure speech dispatcher to start up once at boot time and have
all clients such as Orca,, spd-say, speechd_up (if used) call upon
this single server.  Then the configurations would all come from a
single place - /etc/speech-dispatcher.  I realize that some distros
that are obsessed with using Pulse Audio may not work with this
suggested configuration however.

If you continue down the road of individual processes of speech
dispatcher, then Orca for your normal login session will use
~/.speech-dispatcher as its base.  For gdm however, the
.speech-dispatcher directory in gdm's home directory will take effect
during the gnome gdm login screen.  On my Arch Linux system, gdm uses
/var/lib/gdm as its home directory for gdm.

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:48:08AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> There should at most only be two copies of speechd.conf. The version
> that is used for Orca is usually
> ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf. The version used for Speakup
> is most likely in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. Try copying
> your system version into your home folder. This should unify your
> settings for both.
>
> You can also try running
>
> spd-conf
>
> from a terminal. Set it up to configure the user settings. This is
> the default. When it asks for the default synthesizer, type ibmtts
> as your response. This should solve your problem, although I'm not
> familiar with IBMTTS itself enough to make further recommendations.
>
> If all else fails, set IBMTTS as your speech synthesizer in your
> Orca preferences. If IBMTTS is listed there you will have no further
> problems. If not, I'm at a loss. I personally don't use IBMTTS, but
> my suggestions are generic enough that at least one of them should
> work for you. But as always, your mileage may vary.
> ~Kyle
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