Re: Orca running gnome-speech synthesizers using alsa-oss

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Halim:

When using gnome-speech, Orca doesn't run the speech synthesizer 
directly.  Instead, gnome-speech starts a synthesis driver in a separate 
process and Orca talks to it via CORBA.  The impact of this is that you 
need to get to the gnome-speech driver and not Orca.

If you like hacking and want to experiment, you can try doing something 
such as replacing the gnome-speech synthesis driver for a TTS engine 
with a shell script that sets up whatever you want and then calls the 
original synthesis driver.  For example, you might:

      mv /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver 
/usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver.orig
      cat > /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver
      #!/bin/bash
      <<<special stuff here>>>
     /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver.orig

Not sure how this would work, but it might be an interesting experiment.

Will

Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hello @all,
>
> Many soundcards are not able to handle more soundoutputs
> at a time.
> I tried on the linux console the alsa-oss-wrapper to get oss-apps 
> running over alsa.
> My question is howto do this with orca??
> aoss /usr/local/bin/orca does not work.
> Thanks
> Halim
>
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