Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

[Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>]

I'm trying to help with the problem here.

My observations:

I have Speech-Dispatcher 0.7.1 installed and working (spd-say functions
properly).

Orca version 2.30.2-1 doesn't present a Speech-Dispatcher option in the speech
configuration section of the preferences.

I then tried deleting my ~/.orca directory and running orca -t from a console:

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not
open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line 959,
    in __speak
        return speaker.say(text)
        AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'say'

        Restarting speech...
        Welcome to Orca setup.

        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/orca/gnomespeechfactory.py", line
          959, in __speak
              return speaker.say(text)
              AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'say'

              Restarting speech...
              Something looks wrong with speech.  Aborting.

              So it's trying to run Gnome-speech and failing. I can in fact
              get the text set-up to work by running it with --disable=speech.

              Purging the gnome-speech packages isn't a desirable option
              because too many others depend on them.

              I thought the text setup was fixed years ago, but apparently
              not, or else there's something seriously wrong in my local
              installation.