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Re: [orca-list] pulse audio Speakup and orca

Argh. It was working beautifully a month ago as I reported below.

Unfortunately, it's no longer working, and I'm not sure why. All that's
happened with this machine in the meantime is standard package updates
via the standard Arch "pacman -Syu" command.

I'm unhappy. I need the configuration to be robust and able to handle
software updates. I can't afford to worry about whether this machine is
road worthy on any given day.

So, investigations to follow--at least this one time.

Janina

Janina Sajka writes:

Halim Sahin writes:

Hi Janina,
Don't forget to switch to libao in speechd.conf after folowing the steps
described in archwiki.
MfG.
Halim



Thanks, Halim, for the explicit reminder. I did forget this step at
first and was very unsatisfied with the laggy performance of the default
pulse driver in speech-dispatcher.

Switching to libao on my Fedora system has given me the best performing
Fedora I've ever had, but only when I switched back to TTSynth with the
native speakup-connector on the console. Fortunately, it's now all
working on one audio device. Previously, I had two--one device for the
gui, another for the console. So, I'm quite the happy customer.

Thanks again for the pa configuration steps. I can perfectly accept pa
on these terms! <grin>

Janina


On Fr, Nov 13, 2015 at 01:16:15 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:

Halim:

I'm going to try and follow your steps this weekend as I continue to
configure an old laptop to run Arch.

Thanks for the reminder.

Janina

Halim Sahin writes:

Hi,
It seems nobody read my posts :-(.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_without_grabbing_hardware_device

HTH.
Halim

On Di, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:44:30 -0600, Alex Midence wrote:

It isn't necessary to use systemwide Pulse audio anymore.  I use console speech on my Ubuntu box at 
home which has Pulse Audio  installed and configured in the recommended way (not systemwide) and I 
am able to use Speakup just fine.  The trick is to start it from a Gnome Terminal within X:

sudo modprobe speakupg_soft start=1
sudo espeakup

Just my thoughts,
Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Mike and Jenna
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 1:37 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: [orca-list] pulse audio speakup and orca

Hi,

I am coming a long way on the new directions for making a newer version of debian Vinux butt want 
to maybe get some suggestions I recompiled espeak to use  pulse audio I will paste the instructions 
that I have required from john and a few others from mailing lists.


Edit the Makefile and find the section which reads like this:

# 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio 
#AUDIO = runtime AUDIO = portaudio #AUDIO = portaudio0 #AUDIO = 
portaudio2 #AUDIO = pulseaudio #AUDIO = sada

And simply change it to read thusly:

# 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio 
#AUDIO = runtime #AUDIO = portaudio #AUDIO = portaudio0 #AUDIO = 
portaudio2 AUDIO = pulseaudio #AUDIO = sada

As you can see I just commented out portaudio and uncommented 
pulseaudio.


cd ../../
apt-get install espeakup
cd espeakup-0.71/
make
make install

modprobe speakup-soft
espeakup

Now I wonder If I should go threw this next part and try as I am building it as a rolling release 
using sid and apt-get -u to hold back broken packages

Here is the part in question mind you I am using software speech and not hardware speech.

In Debian Jessie/Sid, you will need to edit /etc/default/pulseaudio to have this line:

PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1

And in /etc/pulse/client.conf:

autospawn = no

It's been a while since I configured speech for orca, but I think I had to modify 
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf to use a unix socket:

SocketPath "/var/run/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.sock"

And in my .bash_profile, I added:

export
SPEECHD_ADDRESS="unix_socket:/var/run/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.so
ck"

I use hardware speech with speakup on the machine running orca and I don't run orca on the machine 
using espeakup, so I can't say that it will work for both orca and speakup with espeakup. Please 
follow up if I missed something.

Here is a link to the bug report.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481651




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                        sip:janina asterisk rednote net
                Email:  janina rednote net

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Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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