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Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze



Kenny Hitt, le Thu 23 Sep 2010 10:24:50 -0500, a écrit :
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:52:47PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > The upstream 0.7.1 release fixes the issues from this bug report,
> > but is not yet available in Debian. To my knowledge, the version
> > 0.7 works in Debian too, if used with the default settings. It has troubles
> > with non-default settings of the communication method.
> 
> Actually, it doesn't.  
> I purged the existing speech-dispatcher package and did a rm -rf on /etc/speech-dispatcher.  
> Then, I installed the speech-dispatcher package again.
> my ~/.speech-dispatcher/log/espeak.log contains the following:
> 
> pulse.c: pa_simple_new() failed: Connection refused
> 
> That's why I returned to gnome-speech.  It's the only way currently to use orca in Debian Sid or Squeeze.

As usual, pasting the exact error message helps a lot to understand what
the real issue is. It's not the speechd connection, but the now-default
pulseaudio output connection. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593968

Samuel


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