Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze
Hi.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:42:54PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi,
> I suggest that one way to ensure a sane configuration of
> speech-dispatcher in .speech-dispatcher is to run spd-conf from the
> shell.
> The configuration file actually needs to be in
> .speech-dispatcher/conf, which that script will take care of for you
> among other things.
> Try that and see how it goes?
>
>
>
Thanks, that finally got it. Not sure if I could have copied the file I edited from /etc/speech-dispatcher, but spd-conf did the trick.
My final setup uses alsa and not pulseaudio.
Otherwise, I just pressed enter and let spd-conf use it's defaults.
Kenny
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> >Hi. Looks like just editing a speechd.conf I copied to ~/.speech-dispatcher wasn't enough to get it working
> >I only changed the default audio from pulse to alsa.
> >
> >I am really starting to think the best answer for all this mess is to downgrade to speech-dispatcher 0.6.
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> >On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:21:46PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> >>Hi. No, all I get is silence trying to play a wav file with paplay.
> >>Looks like that might be the issue.
> >>I installed pavucontrol, but it says there are no devices.
> >>
> >>I don't want to use a .asoundrc. I will not for any reason break my alsa output.
> >>If pulseaudio can't get along with my other apps running
> >>alsa, then time to switch speech-dispatcher to alsa for output.
> >>I stopped running Ubuntu because of pulseaudio. I will not allow pulseaudio to break my access to Debian as well!
> >>
> >> Kenny
> >>
> >>On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 03:36:30AM +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> >>>Hi Kenny,
> >>>can you play sounds using paplay?
> >>>You can find some wav files in /usr/share/sounds
> >>>Try to play these with paplay.
> >>>In my kvm machine, pulseaudio output was muted.
> >>>I have created a custom .asoundrc file and used alsamixe to unmute it.
> >>>contents of the ~/.Asoundrc file is:
> >>>
> >>>pcm.pulse {
> >>> type pulse
> >>>}
> >>>
> >>>ctl.pulse {
> >>> type pulse
> >>>}
> >>>pcm.!default {
> >>> type pulse
> >>>}
> >>>ctl.!default {
> >>> type pulse
> >>>}
> >>>
> >>>HTH.
> >>>Halim
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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