<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Kudos and much gratitude to all who work on this!  Here's the way Karmic is supposed to run.  <br> <br> <br> Best,<br> <br> <br> Dave<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> -------- Original Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>Re: Pulse Audio and Speech Dispatcher in Karmic?</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:46:14 -0500</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>Bill Cox <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:waywardgeek@gmail.com"><waywardgeek@gmail.com></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th> <td>Dave Hunt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dave.hunt2@verizon.net"><dave.hunt2@verizon.net></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> <pre>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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/vinux/vinux-karmic/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/vinux/vinux-karmic/ubuntu</a> karmic main deb-src <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/vinux/vinux-karmic/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/vinux/vinux-karmic/ubuntu</a> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dave.hunt2@verizon.net"><dave.hunt2@verizon.net></a> 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 > > > > </pre> </body> </html>