Re: [orca-list] Update: Upgrading Speech Dispatcher broke my Orca

[Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2 gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 08:45:39AM -0500, Janina Sajka via orca-list wrote:
> As of this morning, after a fresh Orca build from master, I still have
> no speech dispatcher support with the same dbus error on both my
> systems.

sad to heare. how you starting orca?

> This was working a few days ago, so I'm a bit flumoxed. However, it
> seems to be some kind of permissions problem with SD, e.g.
>
> janina@concerto 08:33:58 ~$spd-say hello
> Failed to connect to Speech Dispatcher:
> Error: Can't connect to unix socket
> /home/janina/.cache/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock: Connection refused.

hmm. this isn't default location of sd socket.

> Autospawn: Server successfully autospawned
>
> janina@concerto 08:43:23 ~$ls -l
> /home/janina/.cache/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
> srwxrwx--- 1 janina janina 0 Dec 29 08:34
> /home/janina/.cache/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
>
> NOTE: I hear a pop from the relevant speaker which suggests to me that
> pipewire/alsa is making the device available.

I recommend to check sd config files. and either update them or
roll back to factory state.

> Best,
>
> Janina

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Sincerely, Alexander