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

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
I now have speech-dispatcher working together with espeakup and other 
audio, all through alsa.
Getting sd to work system-wide was one of my biggest issues, combined with 
the sd timeout that, by default is set to 5 seconds.
So by the time I ran spd-say, speech-dispatcher had decided that there are 
no clients talking to it, so it unloads all its modules and terminates.
Spd-say did not give an error, just came back to a prompt.
I now have in speechd.conf:
AudioALSADevice "sysdefault:CARD=PCH"
I used ecasound to find the device which ended up being used.
aplay -L gives a lot of devices, so I tried them with espeakup running, 
most of them giving "device or resource busy"
ecasound test.wav -o:alsa,sysdefault:CARD=PCH

Which was, maybe not really needed, is that I built espeak from source, 
making sure that it would not try to use pulse, but forcing it to 
portaudio.
In terms of orca, using startx orca, I got to a point where it said:
"screen reader on", which I suppose must be the new way orca greets one.
However, in the x session itself, I got no speech, but I think there still 
might be issues there.
The recompile of espeak might have solved one issue I had since my upgrade 
though.
I could play audio from the talking console, but while the audio was 
playing, speakup was silent.
This now works correctly.
At least, I am making some progress.
Kind regards, Willem


 On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

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>
> Hi, Janina:
>
> On 27/04/2019 18:41, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hi, Didier:
> >
> > I just want to be clear. On every system I have had over the past years,
> > if espeakup is running, nothing else can output to the device espeakup
> > is using.
>
> All I can answer is: it works here.
> I have only one sound card, and when espeakup is running I can hear
> speech from Orca through speech-dispatcher > libao > alsa
> and from a youtube video though Firefox > pulseaudio
>
> So I still think that's a matter of setting.
>
> > Note I mean espeakup, not e espeak or espeak-ng. I make this distinction
> > carefully.
> >
> >
> > I have never been successful with pulse audio supporting both espeakup
> > and speech-dispatcher on the same audio sink/card. I've tried several
> > times and eventually given up.
>
> Well, don't pulseaudio for espeakup or speech-dispatcher.
>
> However I just tried setting it as audio output for speech-dispatch1er
> both ways:
> 1. setting in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf:
> AudioOutputMethod "pulse"
> 2. setting in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf:
> AudioOutputMethod "libao"
> and in /etc/libao.conf:
> default_driver=pulse
>
> In both cases orca worked, I hear Schubert and espeakup is working
>
> Si again, it's matter of setting of both alsa and pulseaudio
>
> Best regards
>
> Didier