Re: Speech Dispatcher in Squeeze

[Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>]

Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
 
> Apart from the fact that I can't get the closed-source RSGames
> client to talk, a problem which is surely outside the scope of this
> list, I don't get the whole personal speech dispatcher thing.  If
> speech-dispatcher is not meant to be run as a system-wide process,
> what loads it?  Do I need to load it at start-up or will some
> hither-to unmentioned process launch it when it's needed?

The client loads it. For example, if I run spd-say as an ordinary user for the
first time, a speech-dispatcher daemon is automatically invoked. Orca does the
same.