Fwd: Re: Pulse Audio and Speech Dispatcher in Karmic?

Dave Hunt dave.hunt2 at verizon.net
Wed Jan 27 17:39:27 GMT 2010


Kudos and much gratitude to all who work on this!  Here's the way Karmic 
is supposed to run.


Best,


Dave





-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Pulse Audio and Speech Dispatcher in Karmic?
Date: 	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:46:14 -0500
From: 	Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com>
To: 	Dave Hunt <dave.hunt2 at verizon.net>



Hi, David.  I rewrote the pulseaudio driver for speech-dispatcher,
based on work by some other folks with a libao driver.  It does get
rid of the long delay.  The easiest way to get the patch is probably
to add the Vinux/Ubuntu Karmic repository to your sources.list file,
and then to apt-get upgrade.  Note that if you use ibmtts, you'll need
to install those files as well from the repository.  To use the
repository, as root, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and add these lines
at the bottom:

# Vinux
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vinux/vinux-karmic/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/vinux/vinux-karmic/ubuntu karmic main

Next, you want to tell your system not to complain about unsigned
packages when installing.  To do this, import the key from Ubuntu
with:

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EF2AFDCF

Then, do the usual apt-get commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

That should update speech-dispatcher and espeak.  If you use speakup
and speechd-up, then the speechd-up package will be updated as well,
so that it can run as a service on boot.

Base on e-mails I read from Luke, it seems likely that Lucid will ship
with a new pulseaudio driver based on this work, and should have much
better performance.  I hope to release a Vinux/Ubuntu Lucid ISO
shortly afterwards, probably in May, which has these improvements and
more.

Best regards,
Bill

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Dave Hunt<dave.hunt2 at verizon.net>  wrote:
>  Am I correct in understanding that you have written software that allows
>  Speech Dispatcher and one's favorite synth engine to work with Pulse Audio,
>  without the well-known delay?   If so, I'd like instructions, or a link to
>  same, for applying your changes.
>
>  I am running Karmic with Pulse Audio, but using Gnome Speech Services,
>  instead of Speech Dispatcher.  There is no significant delay, but, since
>  Gnome Speech Services will soon be depricated, I'd like to have a Speech
>  Dispatcher configuration that does not render Orca nearly useless, when
>  Pulse Audio is in the system.  It is my understanding that all the major
>  Linux distros are moving to Pulse Audio, so, we should make this work!
>
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>
>  Dave  Hunt
>
>
>
>

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