/dev/dsp is an oss device not alsa. Fix whatever program to use alsa devices where possible. Some people tell me pulsaudio is good; and the best thing since slice bread. Others sware you should uninstall it (which might break gnome etc). Sorry I only have ubuntu at command-line at this stage, no gnome and Orca involved yet. I will look at viubuntu soon. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kitty Litter" <n8kl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 7:28 AM Subject: Re: system with speakup software already installed? > Kerry, > I followed your instructions and was able to create all the speakup > modules in vibuntu 1.2 which I installed on an unused partition from a > memory stick. My audapter hardware synth worked as expected but softsynth > had problems. I am using gnome speech with espeak and the original > pulseaudio from vibuntu 1.2. When it does work, it chops a little of each > letter or the first word on a line. Sometimes I get messages about not > able to open /dev/dsp. I don't know enough about alsa or pulseaudio to fix > this. Also the espeakup daemon in /usr/bin is espeakup without the d like > it used to be. > A few days ago I did install the speakup-source package and tried the > module-assistant which never compiled correctly. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
