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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

When would libao kick-in? I have it here, but do not remember which package called for it. My 
speech-dispatcher is quite 
stable for the most part, onlly think dummy kicked in once in the months I've had a GUI on this arch 
installation.  
I have only succeded  in getting espeak to work with orca here so far, and have never had voxin on this 
machine period
Once in a while however when starting the GUI with startx, XFCE4 for sure, and maybe Mate as well, I get no 
speech 
although orca has started.
This occurs the first time I stat an Xsession after booting, if not exclusively then close to it. This is not 
exceedingly 
rare by any means, but does not happen most of the time, and killing off speechdispatcher and the whole 
x-session and 
starting again runs normally. I've never used pulse on this installation, or on arch-linux at all for the 
record. 
--
B.H.

  

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:00:42PM -0500, kendell clark wrote:
> 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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