Speech-dispatcher on Fedora 9

[Hynek Hanke]

Jan Buchal wrote:
>     LB> spd-Asay spoke, yes. But paplay stopped working.
> But the question is, if SD realy works with pulse audio output method or
> alsa.
>   

With the 0.6.6 version of Speech Dispatcher, you must make
sure that all of the loaded output modules (see AddModule
in speechd.conf) specify AudioOutputMethod as "pulse"
in their .conf files. With 0.6.7 the setting is centralized in one
option of the same name in speechd.conf.

>     LB> [root at lapx ~]# paplay /usr/share/sounds/warning.wav Connection
>     LB> failure: Access denied [root at lapx ~]#
>     >> 
>     LB> And no, I'm stucked...
>   

Try to run pulse audio as

pulseaudio -vvvvv

in the terminal and examine the output to learn more about why
the paplay can't access it. Or send it to us and we might have
a look:

pulseaudio -vvvvv 2&> pulse.log

>     LB> That script seems to be missing in the Fedora distribution.
>     >> Hm, it seams that in Fedora is older version of SD. Which version
>     >> you have there?
>
>     LB> It's speech-dispatcher-0.6.6-18.
> I think that spd-conf is from 0.6.7 version.
>   
Yes.

Please note however, that the current versions of Pulse Audio still
seem to not be able to reach the performance available with ALSA
and you will likely still find the responsiveness to be slower even with
latest versions of everything if you use Pulse Audio.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke