I don't know the answer to your specific question but you can recompile espeakup to use alsa with espeak. Just as a point of interest if you don't find the solution you're looking for. On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Kerry Hoath wrote: > I have installed ubuntu 10.10 on a box, and have the speakup modules > installed. > When I installed espeak it pulled in libportaudio2 which pulled in jack > libraries. > > Now when I try to run espeak it tells me connection refused as portaudio > can't contact jack. > Short of recompiling portaudio libraries is there a way to tell > espeak/portaudio to use alsa rather than Jack? > I've looked on portaudio.com but haven't seen a way to configure the > portaudio library to do this. > > Regards, Kerry. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
