Problems setting up speech-dispatcher on Fedora 10

[James Simmons]

Hynek,

Thanks for your response.? I found out that I could make speech-dispatcher use 
alsa instead of pulse-audio by removing the alsa-pulseaudio bridge RPM.? You 
can do this without removing pulse-audio entirely, which is a good thing 
because a lot of stuff in Fedora seems to depend on pulse-audio being there.? 
Speech-dispatcher is working fine now.

Thanks for your info on spd-conf.? I decided to uninstall my speech-dispatcher 
that I compiled from source and go back to the RPMs, so I never got a chance to 
try spd-conf.

James Simmons

--- On Wed, 2/18/09, Hynek Hanke <hanke at brailcom.org> wrote:
From: Hynek Hanke <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Problems setting up speech-dispatcher on Fedora 10
To: ja.simmons at sbcglobal.net
Cc: speechd at lists.freebsoft.org
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 9:05 AM

James Simmons wrote:
> Fedora 10 uses pulse-audio rather than ALSA.  That seems to be the root of
the problem. 

You need to change it to use ALSA. We still have some problemw with Pulse.

> I noticed that the latest speech-dispatcher has a new utility spd-conf
that the version that ships with Fedora 10 does not provide.  I decided to give
this a try, so I uninstalled speech-dispatcher using RPM, downloaded the source,
and ran ./configure, make all, make install.  When I try to run spd-conf it says
that it cannot find a speechd module its trying to import.  I can't see
where this module could come from if not from the speech dispatcher source.
> 
It does, but it gets installed somewhere under /usr/local/something
which is not in your PYTHONPATH, so then spd-conf can't find it. You need
to check where exactly it gets installed (the package name is
"speechd"), likely
in /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ or a similar path according to your
python version and add this to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.
This is important for Orca as well.

You can do so using this command:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/

If you add it at the end of the file ~/.profile , that will make the setting
permanent
in all sessions under this user.
> speech-dispatcher worked very well for me under ALSA, and your website
seems
> 
> to recommend running it that way. 

We think that Pulse Audio is a very good thing and we would like to use
it in the future. There is however still problems on both sides which
haven't
been solved, so we don't recommend it yet.

> Is it possible to not run pulse-audio on Fedora 10, and if so how would I
go about setting it up that way?
> 
I don't know Fedora, but hope somebody else can answer this.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke


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