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

["Derek London" <derekedit hotmail com>]

Got it! Wow, that was definitely harder than it needed to be. Espeak is now 
officially not being used by anything. At least not that I've heard, yet. :P

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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve holmes88 gmail com>
Sent: Thursday 04 Nov, 2010 01:03
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] speech-dispatcher, where else does it get its 
settings?

> I think the best bet in the gdm folder is to delete all .orca.
> Remember now that Orca currently puts its configuration information in
> .local/share/orca instead of .orca.  Clear this all out and Orca
> should come up with whatever speech system it finds and then you can
> go into the preferences and alter accordingly.  You could also copy
> the orca settings from your home directory like this:
> cp -a /home/<user>/.local/share/orca /var/lib/gdm/.local/share
> You might have to create the .local/share if it doesn't already exist
> in your gdm's home directory.  Then you should get the same orca
> settings in gdm as you would get when you login to gnome with a normal
> user account.
>
> Of course, I'm assuming that with this setup,, speakup is being
> autospawned by each user account.  If a system service approach is
> being used, /usr/bin/orca might have to be hacked to import the
> environment ariable in order to access the speech-dispatcher server.
>
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> > Unless you've changed something in Orca preferences from your login
> > screen, you should be able to safely remove /var/lib/gdm/.orca.
> > Everything should then reset to Orca defaults, which as far as I
> > know will revert your speech synthesizer to the speech-dispatcher
> > default module, which should now be ibmtts. If you still get eSpeak,
> > try going into Orca preferences from your login screen and changing
> > the speech synthesizer to ibmtts explicitly. This is probably your
> > best bet anyway, since you won't have to worry at all about where
> > your speech-dispatcher configuration file is if you explicitly set
> > the synthesizer and voice parameters you like in Orca preferences,
> > assuming of course that it does in fact work from within gdm.
> > ~Kyle
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