Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hey, I've been using espeakup for over twelve hours now and by and > large, it's looking pretty good. It is very snappy and responsive. I > can't say I've had any problems interrupting speech either. > > I have run into a couple issues however. On my laptop which has a > very single-minded single chanel sound card, I haven't figured out a > way to be able to use Speakup and mplayer at the same time. I have to > silence Speakup first and then start mplayer to listen to something. > I cannot use Speakup at all while mplayer is running. I have mplayer > to use the ALSA dmix plug-in in the configuration but I don't know how > to get espeak and/or espeakup to use the same plug-in I have espeak > compiled with Portaudio 19 which I thought was ALSA. > > The other thing is a few minutes ago on my desktop machine with does > have a nice SB Live card shares sound with Mplayer and > Orca/Gnome-Speech just fine, I lost speech! I was in mutt reading some > mail and all of a sudden, no speech. It just quit! I could switch to > my gnome session and that still talked fine and I got speech back by > killing espeakup and restarting it again. When I lost speech in my > original text console, I got to a shell prompt and just tried running > espeakup with no results. I later saw that it said the program was > already running. But when I killed it from another terminal and > restarted it , I got speech back and it has been running since. > Wonder if anyone else has had any speech losses with this. > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFImLtDWSjv55S0LfERA7DxAKCZDu54VSRA/P/C3crsaK88Hitd/QCbB2rx > cnAdnErsNMUOLTl4cz6mW6I= > =RsNx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > Hi, I have had some speech loss, but it always returns a few seconds later. I don't really mind it, and it's infrequent. When I used spk-connect-ttsynth, I had speech loss similar to what you describe. I had to kill that program quite often, whereas Espeakup I don't need to. I'm afraid I don't know how to solve your dmix issue: Alsa just works for my sound card, even when mplayer is running. Best, Zack.
