From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-gy0-f170.google.com (mail-gy0-f170.google.com [209.85.160.170]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C09BC1A262 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:49:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so830326gyf.29 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:49:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.63.35 with SMTP id z23mr4392042yhc.92.1298652542599; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lnx3 (ip72-208-185-148.ph.ph.cox.net [72.208.185.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l10sm496961yha.39.2011.02.25.08.48.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:49:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:48:56 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher and espeak Message-ID: <20110225164856.GA17595@lnx3> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <20110222192254.GA17645@nextdog> <4D6419D1.2080001@gmail.com> <4D6427BD.1080108@gmail.com> <20110222223256.GB23691@lnx3> <4D6540DB.6090404@gmail.com> <20110223195321.GA1739@nextdog> <4D657762.9010305@gmail.com> <20110225064638.GA1254@lnx3> <4D67BE78.6040606@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D67BE78.6040606@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:49:03 -0000 I am using speech-dispatcher from git or I should say speech-dispatcher-git from AUR. Actually, I maintain this package in AUR and pretty much configured it to run as a system wide service in its default form. For that, it works great under alsa. When I was testing all this pulse stuff, I did configure speechd to run as a single user and commented out the DisableAutoSpawn entry at the bottom of the conf file. So after all that, I was starting speech dispatcher under pulse control; I could tell that much. I also should mention that I changed the AudioOutputMethod to pulse also. I also had problems with the environment variable still being set even though the speechd daemon had been stopped. For some reason, even when the execute flag is turned off on /etc/profile.d/speechd.sh, it was still being imported when users login. I'm not sure why that is happening because I thought files in profile.d had to be executible in order to be imported like that. So I commented out the line inside that file and successfully had speechd running with autospawn and all. Frankly, I much prefer to run speechd as a central service if possible; it just seems more stable that way. I had too many problems getting speechd to autospawn properly last night with all this messing about. Also, the distortion did not go away when I attempted the src-best-quality deal for the resample-method. I'll look into it again but for now, it's nice to have a stable system again with ALSA instead of pulse for speech dispatcher stuff. One nice thing with pulseaudio-gnome and friends is I get a few more sounds than I used to get so it may be worth getting pulse going but speech dispatcher is a bloody mess right now. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:36:40AM -0500, Kyle wrote: > I just thought of this. Are you running speech-dispatcher from extra > or the speech-dispatcher-git package from AUR? Speech-dispatcher in > extra seems to be properly configured to run in either user or > system mode. But I couldn't get speech-dispatcher-git to run in user > mode and didn't try running it in system mode, although it > constantly attempted to find its socket in /var, which is only > supposed to apply if run system-wide. It wouldn't surprise me in > this case to find that there are other problems with the > speech-dispatcher-git configuration. Perhaps it's currently broken > and will be fixed in the near future, or perhaps something has > changed in the default configuration that I'm unsure how to fix to > make it run correctly here. > ~Kyle > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup