Re: [orca-list] possible bug, orca refuses to speak any apps or incoming text if not started with the desktop in focus

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

speech-dispatcher can use libao? I remember getting that working once,
and the only voice that would work with it was voxin. FOr some reason
espeak wouldn't work when speech-dispatcher was using libao.


On 05/20/2014 06:54 PM, Jason White wrote:
> kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> > I've just noticed a weird bug, I think it's a bug, in the latest orca mster, although it's been present  
> > since at least 
> > orca v3.12, possibly earlier. If speech-dispatcher crashes, which sometimes happens when using alsa, I 
> > have a keyboard 
> > shortcut that kills orca, speech-dispatcher and then runs orca --replace to restart it. 
>
> I think you can use libao with Speech-Dispatcher and avoid the crashes. I run
> PulseAudio here and haven't noticed any issues, but obviously you're avoiding
> that for some reason. Using Speech-Dispatcher with its ALSA module is known to
> be unreliable.
>
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