If you have choppy espeak, running palseaudio in system-wide mode probably wont help. However, here's what to do for an Ubuntu Lucid system: First, edit /etc/default/pulseaudio. Find the line that says: PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0 and change it to: PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 Next, edit /etc/pulse/client.conf. Uncomment the line that says ; autospawn = yes and change it to autospawn = no Now disable spawning of user-mode pulseaudio: sudo rm -f /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop Now, re-enabe the gnome volume control. Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop, and change OnlyShowIn=XFCE; to OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE; Now, give everyone rights to use the sound card. Edit /etc/pused -i 's/lse/system.pa, and change load-module module-native-protocol-unix to load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 Note that the PulseAudio author seems to think this is crazy recklessness. Anyone already logged into your machine could listen through your mic, or play obnoxious sounds without your permission. I wish those were the kinds of computer problems I had to actually worry about! Bill On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Alonzo <mariachiac at gmail.com> wrote: > hello Bill, > > Ok. Plese post what to do to run PulseAudio in system wide mode. I beleive > you posted this a while backi, but some thinggs could of changed. the last > time i tried this, speech was still choppy and i was unable to hear speakup > after using gnome until a couple of seconds later. so I was lead to beleive > that the card was busy or the stream was interrupted some how. > > Alonzo > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:22 PM > Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu > > >> I just tried it on my somewhat modified version of Ubuntu 10.04 x64 (I >> run Vinux). ?Espeakup doesn't sound bad, but it's chopping off the end >> of words. ?I don't know what that's about. >> >> Espeakup is nice, but I believe ospeakup feeding into opentts is >> better. ?On Vinux, we run a patched version of speechd-up feeding into >> speech-dispatcher, which has some patches from the ospeakup fork of >> speechd-up. ?It's almost exactly like espeakup, but it also works with >> voxin, which is what I prefer. ?We run a system-wide copy of >> speech-dispatcher for use by just speakup, so the reliability is rock >> solid. ?Just edit /etc/defaults/speech-dispatcher to enable this. ?If >> you like, you can get our patched speechd-up package from the >> Vinux/Lucid PPA. ?By the way, if you're running the desktop version of >> Ubuntu Lucid, I think you'll be happier if you run pulseaudio in >> system-wide mode. >> >> Bill >> >> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Alonzo <mariachiac at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I seem to recall before 10.04 was officially released espeakup had >>> trouble running. there was choppy speech and words were not always >>> completed. Has this been fixed now or is there a work around? >>> >>> Alonzo >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
