virtualbox success

[Robert Murray]

Hi

it is possible to get espeak to use alsa using the alsa-oss package.  After following the below procedure, you should be able to get virtualbox and 
other programs which use alsa to work at the same time as espeak.  Please note that it is possible that you will lose speech all together if 
something goes rong, so I would recommend only doing this if you have some other way of accessing the machine which doesn't depend on gnome-speech 
like ssh or emacspeak etc.  

open a terminal and type the following command:

sudo dpkg-divert --rename /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver

make sure it worked with:
ls /usr/bin/espeak-*

it should say /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver.distrib

If you don't have nano installed, install it:
sudo apt-get -q install nano
or use a different editor in the next command:

sudo nano -w /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver

enter the following text:
#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/aoss /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver.distrib $@

save and exit with control-x, then y then enter.

now type:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver

Log out and in again, and if everything went ok, you should have espeak working with alsa. 

from withing virtualbox, you can switch back to Ubuntu by pressing the right control key and then alt tab.

If you lose speech, or it isn't working well, you can restore it with:

make sure that /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver.distrib exists before entering the following commands:
sudo rm /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver
sudo dpkg-divert --rename --local --remove /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver

Any problems, let me know. 

Regards

Rob


On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:02:58PM -0400, Guy Schlosser wrote:

> Let me start this E-mail off by saying thank you to all who 
> recommended Virtualbox for running the Windows programs I still run 
> here and there.  I just have one issue/concern, and I haven't quite 
> figured out how to solve it yet.  If anyone has any ideas, pass them 
> this way.  When I shut down Windows (i.e. power-off my virtual 
> machine), I have no speech when I return back to Linux.  I have my 
> audio for my VM set to Alsa, not sure if that makes a difference or 
> not, and Orca is set up to use the default Espeak driver.  Is there a 
> conflict somewhere?  If so, how can I make Espeak use Alsa?  As 
> always, thanks in advance for the help.
> 
> 
> Guy
> 
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