From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFCB109B3 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:39:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ya2E1b0020mv7h059of9Bk; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:39:09 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.5] ([69.255.121.245]) by OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yof81b0025Hmjel3Xof8lE; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:39:09 +0000 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:39:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Garry Turkington X-X-Sender: garry@localhost.localdomain To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Speakup with speech-dispatcher and Dectalk or other -generic modules Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:39:08 -0000 Hi, After living with an old speakup 2.x install for an age I finally got around to building an up-to-date Ubuntu install. I've got Orca working with gnome-speech but also want speakup for terminal access. Since I want to use either Dectalk or Cepstral voices I've configured speech-dispatcher/speechd-up and can get it to work fine with espeak. But when I try to use the dtk-generic module I get no speech via spd-say. At first it appeared to be an Alsa/OSS thing as I think speech-dispatcher was locking /dev/dsp and the Dectalk libraries seem to want to talk to it directly via OSS. So I switched speech-dispatcher to use OSS and the conflict is gone in that while speech-dispatcher is configured with espeak I can successfully use the Dectalk command line say utility. But when I try and move to the dtk-generic module I get nothing. Plainly there's some incantation I'm missing here -- does anyone know it? I'll move onto Cepstral Swift after hopefully resolving this -- currently just loading the Swift module kills speech-dispatcher... Thanks, Garry -- Garry Turkington garry.turkington@gmail.com