speechd-up

[Hynek Hanke]

On 31.7.2010 10:25, Jan Buchal wrote:
> Well, it is not easy. :-)

I'll describe the hackish setup in which it is possible
to run. Basically, you make BrlTTY talk to your
user Speech Dispatcher by fooling it to think it
runs as user while it really runs as root.

1) BrlTTY is run with HOME=/home/your-user
in the /etc/init.d/brltty script so it actually uses
the same Speech Dispatcher as under your user.
This could probably be made a little nicer by
using SPEECHD_SOCKET_PATH instead of HOME.

2) Disable autospawn for the root user by setting
up configuration via spd-conf and then edit
the config file by adding a DisableAutoSpawn line.

3) Have your user Speech Dispatcher started before
you start BrlTTY. One possibility is to login to Gnome
when Orca autostarts it and then restart BrlTTY. This setup
can run completely on Pulse. Another solution is to use ALSA
and start Speech Dispatcher under your user via some init.d
script early on.

BrlTTY however needs to be improved as well to play
nice with session integration and not require these hacks.
We have already talked with Dave Mielke (the maintainer)
about it and will continue.

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke