Re: [orca-list] Orca - No espeak

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:08:40PM EST, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/orca/orca.py", line 921, in
> _showPreferencesConsole
>     module.showPreferencesUI(_commandLineSettings)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/orca/orca_console_prefs.py", line 507,
> in showPreferencesUI
>     (not setupSpeech(prefsDict)):
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/orca/orca_console_prefs.py", line 243,
> in setupSpeech
>     families = speechServerChoice.getVoiceFamilies()
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/orca/speechdispatcherfactory.py", line
> 421, in getVoiceFamilies
>     voices += self._send_command(list_synthesis_voices)
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/orca/speechdispatcherfactory.py", line
> 213, in _send_command
>     return command(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/speechd/client.py", line 850, in
> list_synthesis_voices
>     code, msg, data = self._conn.send_command('LIST', 'SYNTHESIS_VOICES')
> AttributeError: 'SSIPClient' object has no attribute '_conn'

This looks like a speech-dispatcher issue moreso than an Orca issue. What happens if you try and run spd-say 
and give command-line arguments to use espeak for output?

Luke