Re: Emacspeak with Espeak on Ubuntu doesn't work

[Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, so if I install pulse audio, I can recompile espeak without
reference to port audio alltogether? Also, how does this impact things
like the emacspeak server for espeak and espeakup?

I just wanna be sure I don't knock over the house of cards with loss
of speech.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:43:19AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:14:25AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Out of curiousity, if portaudio is the culprate with espeak, can one
> > merely compile espeak now and leave portaudio out completely? I
> > thought espeak depended on it internally to even compile.  Can one
> > clarify? I might be interested in evaluating pulse again if things are
> > all that much better now.
> 
> Unfortunately, espeak requires either portaudio or pulseaudio to
> compile. No one has written a back end that allows it to use alsa
> directly.
> 
> William
> 


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