Re: Espeak Server Likes PulseAudio?

[Derek Roberts <bigd.vi.guy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Another thing you could do is
chmod -x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
Unless you actually need it running for something...

Thanks,
KJ4UFX

On 3/29/13, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this will help or not, but following some advice I found
> on the web (I think from Tim.) I recompiled eSpeak from source to have
> it use PA if it was present. I'm sure you could do the opposite and
> force it to use ALSA. Here are the notes I wrote up for myself. I hope
> they help.
>
> **** Recompiling eSpeak to Use PulseAudio
>
> Unfortunately, the last syllable spoken is always truncated making it
> unusable.
>
> I fixed this by downloading the source code for eSpeak and compiling it
> for runtime, which uses PulseAudio if it's running and PortAudio otherwise.
>
> I went to http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html and downloaded the
> file espeak-1.46.02-source.zip.
>
> I had to install the library development packages for PulseAudio and
> PortAudio.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev libportaudio-dev
>
> Now after unpacking the source code for eSpeak, I went into the source
> directory, espeak-1.46.02-source/src, and I made the following changes
> to the Makefile:
>
> #DATADIR=/usr/share/espeak-data
> DATADIR=/home/chaltain/Tools/share/espeak-data
>
> #PREFIX=/usr
> PREFIX=/home/chaltain/Tools
>
> # 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio
> AUDIO = runtime
> #AUDIO = portaudio
>
> Now I run the commands:
>
> $ make all
> $ make install
>
> This creates new eSpeak libraries and binaries, using the runtime
> option, and places them in my ~/Tools directory.
>
> Now to start Emacspeak with eSpeak and these new libraries, I run the
> commands:
>
> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/chaltain/Tools/lib
> $ emacspeak -e
>
> aNow Emacspeak comes up and I don't have the latency issues.
>
> Note that I exported the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of running the
> following command:
>
> $ sudo ldconfig /home/chaltain/Tools/lib
>
> so that I'd only run emacspeak with this new library and not making the
> change globally, so as not to impact Orca if I did something wrong.
>
> When using ldconfig, note you can use
>
> $ ldconfig -p | grep espeak
>
> to see which eSpeak library is being used.
>
> On 03/28/2013 11:48 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> Somehow, it seems like every time I launch emacspeak now and when I
>> test the espeak server from the emacspeak servers directory, it
>> appears to be launching pulse audio on my system and that in turn is
>> giving me all kinds of problems with speech losses and taking over my
>> ALSA devices.  This all began recently when I thought I would give
>> Pulse another look since I use gnome and want gnome sound support.
>> But after running into conflicts with Speakup and ALSA, I decided to
>> disable Pulse by commenting out the default.pa file but every time I
>> start up emacspeak now, I get some broken or garbled speech and all
>> ALSA speech such as from speakup is silent until I quit emacs.  Anyone
>> know what could be going on here?
>>
>> I would love to just uninstall pulse entirely but other packages
>> require the dumb thing so can't remove it.  Any way to get emacspeak's
>> espeak server to use ALSA only and not be calling on pulseaudio?
>>
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>
> --
> Christopher (CJ)
> chaltain at Gmail
>
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