Re: [orca-list] Still issues with Speechdispatcher on Arch

["Christian" <christian08 runbox com>]

Hi again Steve,
OK, so I have added gdm and my user to speechd, and I can now use spd-say but I cannot select 
speech-dispatcher with Orca.
What is the problem?


On 2010-10-19 at 19:24 Steve Holmes wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:44:48AM +0200, Christian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Sorry for being off topic, but I am not able to get it working.
> > I have now started speechd in /etc.rc.conf and I can run spd-say as root
> but not as a normal user. It cannot connect to speech dispatcher.
> > What is wrong here?
>
> Add gdm and any other normal users who will be using speech-dispatcher
> to the speechd group.  Either edit /etc/group and stick the users on
> the end of the line for speechd or do like the following:
> groupmems -a <user-name> -g speechd
> do this for each user you want added to speechd.  The user speechd
> should already be added to the audio group; the setup script does
> that.  I don't think the users need to be explicitly added to the
> audio group unless you want to play other audio files.  But that would
> be for another topic entirely.
>
> Sorry for the trouble you're running into here.  I need to write up a
> post doc list of steps that one would have to do to get this all
> working.  Thanks for being the ginnipig for me <smile>.
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