Re: [orca-list] Is this safe to do? I don't wanna break Orca

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

I think somebody forgot to start festival before starting orca.  I don't
know if orca will start up festival by itself for you.

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, christopher Gilland via orca-list wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 20:17:34
> From: christopher Gilland via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Reply-To: christopher Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] Is this safe to do? I don't wanna break Orca
>
> So, a while back, I remember trying, through gedit to manually by hand edit
> the
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> /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
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> file, and uncommenting some of the speech modules, then changing the
> default=espeak to which ever module I wanted to use.
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> Obviously, I made sure I first had the TTS engine installed.
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> I think I tried this with Festival, but don't quote me.
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> Anyway, my point is, I then restarted Speech-Dispatcher's service, all be it
> maybe not correctly, and loe and behold, I epicly broke Orca. I then had
> entirely no speech at all.
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> Even after logging out and back in, nothing worked.
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> So, yeah. Whoops? Major! Whoops!
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> So, before I went middle mucking around with that file, and yes, I did copy it
> elseware, so I do have a backup, I was just curious if it was safe to
> uncomment some of those synths in the file, or am I still likely to really
> break Orca if I do this. I'd rather check with you all that're way more
> experienced users than I currently am before I go doing something which'll
> prove to be incredibly stupid! Especially since I have a working system which
> has been configured to the point where I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
>
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> FYI, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.
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>
> Chris.
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