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

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Would pulseaudio have to be systemwide in order to get Speakup talking 
automatically upon boot?  If so, I vote for systemwide.

Al

On 11/10/2015 2:44 PM, 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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