Package: speech-dispatcher Severity: normal What I did to get speech-dispatcher working for me was to forego the system-wide daemon entirely. I stopped it and found that spd-say and orca both start it individually for me and connect to it just fine, the way I'm told it should work.
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii dpkg 1.15.8.4 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libasound2 1.0.23-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libaudio2 1.9.2-3 Network Audio System - shared libr ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdotconf1.0 1.0.13-3 Configuration file parser library ii libespeak1 1.43.03-2 A multi-lingual software speech sy ii libflite1 1.4-release-2 a small run-time speech synthesis ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libpulse0 0.9.21-3+b1 PulseAudio client libraries ii libspeechd2 0.7-5 Speech Dispatcher: Shared librarie ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip speech-dispatcher recommends no packages. Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests: pn speech-dispatcher-doc-cs <none> (no description available) pn speech-dispatcher-festival <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/speech-dispatcher changed: RUN=yes /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf changed: LogLevel 3 LogDir "default" DefaultVolume 100 AudioOutputMethod "alsa" AddModule "espeak" "sd_espeak" "espeak.conf" AddModule "festival" "sd_festival" "festival.conf" AddModule "flite" "sd_flite" "flite.conf" AddModule "ivona" "sd_ivona" "ivona.conf" AddModule "ibmtts" "sd_ibmtts" "ibmtts.conf" AddModule "dummy" "sd_dummy" "" DefaultModule ibmtts Include "/etc/speech-dispatcher/clients/*.conf" Include "clients/*.conf" -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org