Re: [orca-list] orca stops speaking with speech dispatcher

[jon orcauser <j orcauser googlemail com>]

Speech dispatcher defaults to alsa sound, intrepid default output is pulse.

Either disable pulse in intrepid and use alsa, (prefered option)

Or tell speech dispatcher to use pulse.

There were some really good tips on how to do either of these just
recently on the list, please have a look.

Hope this helps.

-Jon


On 1/22/09, Rui Batista <ruiandrebatista gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm expeiencing the same with speech-dispatcher gnomespeech driver and
> speech-dispatcher directly.... I'm using ubuntu 8.10 and voxin ibmtts
>
> Regards,
>
> Rui Batista
> Qui, 2009-01-22 às 06:55 -0500, Jacob Schmude escreveu:
>
> > Hi Everyone
> > I'm attempting to use speech dispatcher directly with Orca (not via
> > its gnome-speech driver). I'm experiencing an odd issue where Orca
> > will stop speaking at a place there would normally be a pause in
> > speech--not a sentence pause, but a pause between items. Example: when
> > in Firefox, if I use navigate to next large object, it will begin
> > reading fine. However, if there is a link or anything else that would
> > normally cause a pause in speech, it will stop reading. Orca doesn't
> > crash, it just won't speak the rest of that object. Using different
> > speech dispatcher drivers seems to introduce some variation as to
> > where and when it will stop, but it eventually exhibits this problem
> > with all of the drivers I've tested. So far, I've tested espeak,
> > ibmtts, and the two generic drivers (dectalk and swift).
> > I'm switching away from gnome-speech for one main reason: stability. I
> > need to keep Pulseaudio in play due to the audio driver I'm using and,
> > to put it miledly, most of the gnome-speech drivers do not like being
> > run through Pulseaudio wrappers and will often cause it to lock up
> > gnome entirely until it is manually sent a KILL signal. Ibmtts and
> > Swift are the worst at this, though dectalk has this problem as well.
> > I have seen this on all gnome-speech/Pulseaudio setups not just the
> > one I'm currently running. As speech dispatcher doesn't rely on the
> > synthesizer to produce its audio output, but rather handles sending
> > the audio data itself, it handles pulse much more gracefully and in
> > fact, it certainly seems to be much more stable. If I could just get
> > rid of this annoying issue with speech stopping it would be perfect.
> > System: Ubuntu 8.10 with all updates, speech dispatcher 0.6.7
> > (provided packages), latest orca trunk
> > Anyone know what's going on? Should I update to speech dispatcher CVS
> > perhaps?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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