If your goal is a common, light-weight speech backend, what I would recommend is: 1. Write something light-weight that is based on dbus -- starting afresh will leave behind cruft you dont need. 2. Create the scripts to cleanly start a dbus session outside gnome, and set up gnome to inherit an already running user dbus session. -- Best Regards, --raman -- Best Regards, --raman On 9/27/10, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > speech-dispatcher used to be a wonderful program. Now it seems that the > development group is only concerned with having it work with ORCA. That's > fine as far as it goes, we need speech-dispatcher to play nicely with the > ORCA shark :-) > > But there is more - much very much more to text to speech than ORCA. > > What good is speech-dispatcher if it doesn't work with speakup? > > That just means that modern Linux distributions that want TTS will just have > to use an older speech-dispatcher and if need be an older ORCA - but isn't > this just nuts? > > I hope someone from the speech-dispatcher development team will look kindly > at those who use their programing. > > David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/> > SOWP <http://www.sowp.org/>, VWOA <http://www.vwoa.org/>, > OOTC<http://www.ootc.us/>, > FISTS <http://www.fists.co.uk/>, CW-Ops <http://www.cwops.org/>, > JARL-A1<http://a1club.net/>, > A1-OP <http://www.arrl.org/a-1-op>, ex-FOC 1271 > ARRL-LM<http://www.arrl.org/> > Chat Skype: djringjr MSN: djringjr@xxxxxxxxxxx AIM: N1EA icq: 27380609 > Radio-Officers Google > Group<http://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers?hl=en>-- Marine > Morse Historic Recordings Page <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/> > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm having trouble with speech-dispatcher in Ubuntu Maverick. I have >> to login to Gnome to get it working. The 0.7 version has basically >> dropped support for global sources of sound, like speakup, so far as I >> can tell. I have to compile my own hacked up copy of speechd-up o get >> any speech at all. >> >> So, I am considering giving up on speech-dispatcher and seeing if >> using the emacspeak back-end could be extended to work with speakup, >> SBL, and yasr. While I haven't tried it, I read that emacspeak >> provides a superior back-end for Orca already. I may be able to make >> this the default back end for the upcoming Vinux release based on >> Ubuntu Maverick. Is this a good or a bad idea? If switching to the >> emacspeak back-end is desirable, what's the best way to get it working >> with speakup and other tools? >> >> Thanks, >> Bill >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the >> emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a >> subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help".
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