Hi, I am coming a long way on the new directions for making a newer version of debian Vinux butt want to maybe get some suggestions I recompiled espeak to use pulse audio I will paste the instructions that I have required from john and a few others from mailing lists. >> Edit the Makefile and find the section which reads like this: >> >> # 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio >> #AUDIO = runtime >> AUDIO = portaudio >> #AUDIO = portaudio0 >> #AUDIO = portaudio2 >> #AUDIO = pulseaudio >> #AUDIO = sada >> >> And simply change it to read thusly: >> >> # 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio >> #AUDIO = runtime >> #AUDIO = portaudio >> #AUDIO = portaudio0 >> #AUDIO = portaudio2 >> AUDIO = pulseaudio >> #AUDIO = sada >> >> As you can see I just commented out portaudio and uncommented >> pulseaudio. cd ../../ apt-get install espeakup cd espeakup-0.71/ make make install modprobe speakup-soft espeakup Now I wonder If I should go threw this next part and try as I am building it as a rolling release using sid and apt-get -u to hold back broken packages Here is the part in question mind you I am using software speech and not hardware speech. In Debian Jessie/Sid, you will need to edit /etc/default/pulseaudio to have this line: PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 And in /etc/pulse/client.conf: autospawn = no It's been a while since I configured speech for orca, but I think I had to modify /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf to use a unix socket: SocketPath "/var/run/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.sock" And in my .bash_profile, I added: export SPEECHD_ADDRESS="unix_socket:/var/run/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.so ck" I use hardware speech with speakup on the machine running orca and I don't run orca on the machine using espeakup, so I can't say that it will work for both orca and speakup with espeakup. Please follow up if I missed something. Here is a link to the bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481651 > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list