Re: problem running espeak again

["Robert D. Crawford" <robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

"Tim Cross" <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Perhaps your pulseaudio isn't quite configured correctly or you have an old
> .asoundrc file? Maybe enable pulsaudio logging and see if that gives more
> clues? Maybe check to ensure some other sound layer isn't getting in the way or
> causing pulseaudio to become sluggish.

I'll see about trying all of those.  My suspicion, likely wrong, is that
this could very well be a server issue.  Even after compiling espeak and
rebooting orca works fine.  The problem, initially, seems to only crop
up after emacspeak is inserted into the mix.  I had the same problem on
this Ubuntu 10.10 installation and never bothered to work it out.  orca
works fine with espeak but trying to use emacspeak is a no-go.  I solved
the problem by using ViaVoice.

Did the steps I followed look correct?  I'm not forgetting something, am
I?  Next time, to keep things separate, maybe I'll install espeak to
/usr/local instead of the default of /usr.

Thanks for your help,
rdc

>
>
> Tim
>
> Robert D. Crawford writes:
>  > OK, so I've just installed 64 bit Vinux.  I'm running emacs 23.3 and
>  > emacspeak from svn.  Because I got the problems with clipped text in
>  > emacsepak I decided to recompile espeak.  Just like the last time I'm
>  > having problems that make things unusable.  As I type this I can hear
>  > the tts repeating fragments from the previous sentence.  Here are the
>  > steps I took to rebuild:
>  > 
>  > 1.  Download the source from the espeak site.
>  > 2. Uncompress, comment the portaudio line and uncomment the pulseaudio
>  > line.
>  > 3.  make, sudo make install
>  > 4.  sudo ldconfig
>  > 5.  cd /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/linux-espeak
>  > 6.  make clean
>  > 7.  make all
>  > 8.  restart the server
>  > 9.  text not clipped but speaks only fragments slowly
>  > 10.  Reboot
>  > 11. same problem
>  > 
>  > Text is spoken in orca properly.  What step did I leave out?  Surely
>  > these has to be something I did wrong.
>  > 
>  > Thanks for any help,
>  > rdc
>  > -- 
>  > Robert D. Crawford                                     robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx
>  > 
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Robert D. Crawford                                     robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx

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