Re: Advice/opinions asked about two speech-dispatcher issues

2014-01-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Paul Gevers, le Sat 18 Jan 2014 22:36:39 +0100, a écrit : > On 15-01-14 20:51, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Second, I am unsure if speech-dispatcher upgrades are actually handled > > gracefully. If speech-dispatcher is already running at the start of the > > upgrade, I think it will keep on runni

Re: Advice/opinions asked about two speech-dispatcher issues

2014-01-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, On 15-01-14 20:51, Paul Gevers wrote: > Second, I am unsure if speech-dispatcher upgrades are actually handled > gracefully. If speech-dispatcher is already running at the start of the > upgrade, I think it will keep on running and only the new version will > be used after killing speech-d

Advice/opinions asked about two speech-dispatcher issues

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, As you all might be aware of, I am working on getting the latest speech-dispatcher into Debian. With the recent change I found one issue I like to discuss. I also like to discuss what I see as a current flaw in the packaging. First, with version 0.8 the upstream source moved to the xdg st

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-23 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "TS" == Trevor Saunders writes: TS> What's really bad about this is that all they had to do was copy TS> code from alsaplay or aplay, they hardly have to write anything TS> new at all. I doubt it was that easy, there are some important differences between requirements on audio

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-23 Thread Trevor Saunders
Hi, On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:40:13AM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote: > > "TS" == Trevor Saunders writes: > > TS> However the main problem of the in alsa (I suspect its some sort > TS> of race) hasn't been fixed, and Braille Comm doesn't seem very > TS> interested in fixing it (its

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-23 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "TS" == Trevor Saunders writes: TS> However the main problem of the in alsa (I suspect its some sort TS> of race) hasn't been fixed, and Braille Comm doesn't seem very TS> interested in fixing it (its been around atleast since lenny was TS> released). AFAIK the upstream dev

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-22 Thread Trevor Saunders
Hi, I'm pretty sure I know what the problem your having is. Your not using pulse or libao as an audio back end right? Could you look at the last few lines of dmesg? I suspect you will find that sd_espeak has segfaulted after the few sentences. Some of the bugs have been fixed in newer version

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-22 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "MA" == Matt Arnold writes: MA> I am using Debian default configuration, and get no speech MA> output when the SPEAK command is issued from any client. I've MA> tried spd-say, Orca, my custom client, and just plain MA> openbsd-netcat. Sometimes it will output a sentence or

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-19 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "MA" == Matt Arnold writes: MA> I've just migrated from Ubuntu, and speech-dispatcher is no MA> longer working, at all. Not only my custom client, but spd-say MA> as well. This information is very vague, we need to know more to help you. What version of speech-dispatcher packa

Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-12 Thread Matt Arnold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I've just migrated from Ubuntu, and speech-dispatcher is no longer working, at all. Not only my custom client, but spd-say as well. I noticed that there is quite a delta between the Debian, and Ubuntu versions so I thought I'd ask here first