Orca/speech in 9.04..again

[Garry Turkington]

Hi all,

I've read a lot about the out-of-the-box issues with speech in 9.04 but am 
still having issues.

I have a clean 9.04 install and am of course having the problems with 
Orca/espeak stuttering and generally not working.  So after a clean 
reinstall I first put the .pulse_a11y_nostart file in my home directory. 
This did stop Pulseaudio working but I lost all speech.  I presume I need 
configure Gnome-speech to talk to Alsa?  I also on another clean install 
did a apt-get remove of pulseaudio with similar results.

I also noticed that other software speech engines such as Dectalk and 
Cepstral also aren't working properly, which I presume indicates the 
Pulseaudio issue is not specific to eSpeak.

So can anyone advise on a definitive way of getting a clean 9.04 to start 
talking nicely?

Thanks,
Garry

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Garry Turkington
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