Question about Speech-dispatcher

[hanke]

> You may want to change the port on which Speech Dispatcher listens.  Do
> that. [..] Unfortunately, spd-say seems to want to talk to port 6560, and
> there isn't a command-line option to change that behavior.

spd-say doesn't have a command line option for that, but it reads
the environment variable SPEECHD_PORT. So you can do this

    SPEECHD_PORT=6562 spd-say test

This environment variable is understood by Orca, Speechd-Up, speechd-el
as well, so setting it globally  is the easiest way how to tell
applications the port that Speech Dispatcher listens on.

I don't know what is the best way and it might be different across
distributions, but setting it in .xsession should work:
   export SPEECHD_PORT=6562
   gnome-session
(The second line is important as well...)

With regards,
Hynek Hanke