speech dispatcher not connecting to alsa

[Rob Hill]

Hello Jan and list,

As you suggested, I installed speechd-el and started emacs with the
command

emacs -q

to avoid starting emacspeak. I'd first started speech dispatcher with
the command

sudo /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start

and once emacs started, started speechd-el with the command

m-x speechd-speak

There was no speech, and I've copied the output of
/var/log/speech-dispatcher/espeak.log below.  Basically, the result is
the same as when I start orca with speech-dispatcher.

 Tue Jan 13 20:59:04 2009 [81205] ALSA: Opening ALSA sound output
 Tue Jan 13 20:59:04 2009 [81265] ALSA: Opening ALSA device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pcm.dmixer
 Tue Jan 13 20:59:04 2009 [84739] ALSA ERROR: Cannot open audio device 
pcm.dmixer (No such file or directory)
 Tue Jan 13 20:59:04 2009 [84768] ALSA ERROR: Cannot initialize Alsa device 
'pcm.dmixer': Can't open.


Regards,

Rob




Jan Buchal writes:
 > >>>>> "RH" == Rob Hill <robhill at es.co.nz> writes:
 > 
 >     RH> Hello Bart and list,
 > 
 >     RH> No, emacspeak is definitely using alsa. c-e c-s gives the
 >     RH> message "viavoice using alsa", and also the eflite_alsa binary
 >     RH> works. I already have the libasound2-dev package installed, by
 >     RH> the way.
 > 
 > For an experiment you can try install speechd-el package and use emacs
 > with speechd-el interface. Before stop please the emacspeak ofcourse and
 > its speech server.
 > 
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