From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay0-omc2-s41.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.177]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HJ5Kl-0005ir-00 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:01:23 -0500 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.174.79]) by bay0-omc2-s41.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:00:51 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:00:51 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 128.243.220.21 by BAY103-DAV7.phx.gbl with DAV; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:00:49 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [128.243.220.21] X-Originating-Email: [mikster4@msn.com] X-Sender: mikster4@msn.com From: "Michael Whapples" To: Subject: Espeak, gnome-speech and alsa Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:00:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Feb 2007 10:00:51.0303 (UTC) FILETIME=[D62E0770:01C7540C] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.9 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:01:23 -0000 Hello, I have tried orca with gnome-speech and the gnome-speech espeak driver, = and initially it seems to work well. The one question I have (as it is = most noticable) is getting espeak to work with alsa and allow other = sounds to play at the same time. Note this can be done on my system with = speech-dispatcher so the sound card can do it, but I find sometimes = speech-dispatcher dies occasionally, and removing as many stages as = possible seems to me to be much more preferable (just my oppinion). Anyway what have I done. Portaudio18 does not support alsa, so I = compiled espeak with portaudio19. When using the defaults for compiling = portaudio19, espeak seemed not to use alsa (so I think), so I compiled = it with only alsa support. Espeak works fine like this, except it still = doesn't speak with other alsa sounds in the background, and issues a = error (refering to alsa files, I can give this error if it would help = anyone). Gnome-speech works with everything like this, but sound while = speech is going on is not possible. So can I solve this? would it help to configure alsa and jack, and use = the jack output of portaudio? Or would something else solve the problem? Any help is welcome. From Michael Whapples