Howdy Willem, For speech-dispatcher with alsa, you could try setting the output to libao. Make sure to install libao before trying this. You may need to open /etc/libao.conf and set: default_driver=alsa HTH, Storm On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 11:45:32AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
Thanks both to Zahari and Janina. Yes, I am running espeakup/speakup. Yes, spd-say does not work, likely because espeakup grabs alsa. Yes, I am using alsa, not pulseaudio.I do not really want to run speechd_up, but I suppose that might be another option. No, I do not have the luxury of a second sound device, so that one cannot work here.I might look at Peter's patch. Kind regards, Willem On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Janina Sajka wrote: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 _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org-- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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