Re: [orca-list] orca command-line configuration question

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Willem:

You need to get speech-dispatcher working. In that effort spd-say is
your friend from the cli. If you can pass it a string and hear speech,
you should be good to go with Orca.
You don't say, but I presume you're also running Speakup on this same
machine? If so, espeakup could be blocking speech-dispatcher. At least,
that's how things work on my machines and it's the reason I use a second
audio card for speech-dispatcher. If using alsa in such a configuration
you'll want to identify the appropriate device in
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. Here's the relevant line from my
file:

#AudioALSADevice "plughw:1"

Note this line is commented because I'm using libao, not alsa, which is
slected higher up in that file. libao simply chooses the first available
audio card when launched. In my case that turns out to be hw:1.

People using pulseaudio will have a different approach. I can't speak to
that, it's never worked for me.

hth

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> Good day,
> I have revived my x-windows system, but still need to get orca running.
> Actually, it seem to be running, but it is not talking as my
> speech-dispatcher is not working.
> I kind of remember that one had a choice to either directly use espeak or
> use it through speech-dispatcher.
> OK, so I am trying to run orca from a console, to set it up to use espeak
> directly, but it wants to connect to the x server.
> How can I make this change from the command line?
> I am happy to edit configuration files if I know which one and where to look
> for it.
> I am running ubuntu 18.04, reached through an upgrade.
> The orca version is 3.28.0
> TIA, Willem
>
>
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Janina Sajka

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