Kyle and Steve, I'd still like to get this pulseaudio working because they have it working in ubuntu. I currently have a pulse server running and get the following output from spd-conf Do you want to test the Espeak synthesizer now? [yes] : >yes Testing whether Espeak works ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib setup.c:344:(snd_config_get_ctl_elem_value) bad value type ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playba Espeak is installed Do you want to test the ALSA sound system now? [yes] : >yes Testing ALSA sound output Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Litt Did you hear the sound? [yes] : > Audio output 'alsa' works Do you want to test the Pulse Audio sound system now? [yes] : > Testing PULSE sound output Did you hear the sound? [yes] : > Audio output 'pulse' works Testing whether Python Speech Dispatcher library is in path and importable Diagnostics results: Speech Dispatcher not working through spd-say Synthesizers that were tested and seem to work: ['espeak'] Audio systems that were tested and seem to work: ['alsa', 'pulse'] Python Speech Dispatcher module is importable End of diagnostics results The lines beginning with "ALSA lib" may be coming from spd-say (but I'm not certain of this). If you take a look at the arch wiki pulseaudio page, they tell you how to run pulseaudio. The idea is to get all your apps to funnel output into pulseaudio server. In the case of alsa, you install a /etc/alsa.conf which essentially reroutes all alsa output to pulse. So if your alsa apps such as espeakup are coded correctly, you should hear output whether your pulse server is running or not. Currently, with my pulse server running I get no speech from espeakup and tons of error messages. However, by installing the portaudio-git package, I get speech output from the espeak command. Kyle, do you have orca and gnome running? If so, how do you get apps like rhythmbox to work without pulseaudio? Chris M
