Re: [orca-list] bug in latest antergos release prevents orca from speaking

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

One thing slint did was to compile speech-dispatcher without pulseaudio 
and with alsa along with a few other things in the build path.  The 
archlinux build of speech-dispatcher built it with pulseaudio and that 
could be part of your problem.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, kendell clark wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 04:15:13
> From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
> To: "orca-list gnome org" <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: [orca-list] bug in latest antergos release prevents orca from
>     speaking
>
> Hi all
> I  got an ultrabook for Christmas, a vizio ct14. It?s a great machine and all that, and I dual boot antergos 
> 18.1 and windows 10. The iso image of 18.1 ships with gnome 3.26 and speaks with orca when launched. However 
> when installed, even with the accessibility packages turned on, orca fails to speak. I believe, but cannot 
> prove, that this is a speech-dispatcher bug. This is with mate 1.18, orca 3.26 stable and the latest stable 
> version of speech-dispatcher. I can?t provide any error logs right now, but if joanie wants I can provide a 
> debug log, although I?ll have to reinstall antergos since I removed it when it wouldn?t speak. Sorry I?m not 
> able to provide more information, all I have right now is that orca doesn?t speak, but ?espeak ?hi?? speaks, 
> so I know the sound works. Trying numerous times to restart orca with ?orca -r? and ?killall orca 
> speech-dispatcher? followed by ?orca -r?, and as a last resort, ?rm -rf ~/.local/share/orca ~/.config/pulse? 
> followed by ?orca -r?,
 nothing
 works. I?ve alerted antergos on twitter but I?m not sure if they?ll do anything about it.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
>
> sent from my ultrabook

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