In your user directory please run spd-conf and answer questions in order to make a user configuration file. Since you are running orca, you may want to have speech-dispatcher started up when the system comes up. That may get orca working for you.
On May 18, 2022 11:23:42 AM "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:
Hi,I am using a Pine64 board, it is an ARM board like a Raspberry PI.I installed Armbian on it.Then I installed the Mate desktop.I cannot get Orca to work, but there are sounds like Orca is working, justnot talking.I have system sounds and espeak and espeak-ng work when tested.And also, spd-say gives me an error.It got installed in a non-usual location, in /usr/sbin.I get the following error when running spd-saylenny@pine64:~/speech-dispatcher-0.8.8$ spd-say testgraphic 192 Failed to connect to Speech Dispatcher:Error: Can't connect to unix socket/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock: No such file or directory. Autospawn: Autospawn failed. Speech Dispatcherrefgraphic 545 used to start with error code, stating this as a reason:So I downloaded speech-dispatcher from its site and put it into the userfolder and unpacked it.Can someone give me the steps for installing from these files?I'll paste the contents of the unpacked .tar.gz file below.I don't get the make command stuff.Thanks.lenny@pine64:~$ cd speech-dispatcher-0.8.8graphic 545 lenny@pine64:~/speech-dispatcher-0.8.8$ lsaclocal.m4 config.guess doc Makefile.am README.packagersANNOUNCE config.h.in FAQ Makefile.in README.styleAUTHORS config.sub git-version-gen missing README.translatorsBUGS configure include NEWSspeech-dispatcher.pc.in graphic 733 build.sh configure.ac INSTALLpo split-version.shcompile COPYING install-sh py-compile srcgraphic 186 config depcomp ltmain.sh README TODO