Orca/speech in 9.04..again

[aruni100 at gmail.com]

Hi, I have simply done:
sudo apt-get remove /usr/bin/pulseaudio
you can move the file to your home folder in case you need it later. 
Everything works fine now except voxin.
Regards,
Aruni.


Garry Turkington wrote:
> 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
>
>