spd neither crashes nor speak

[Cleverson]

Hello all

About a year ago, I started using Oralux Linux. Recently, I decided to 
install Gentoo Linux, mainly to learn more how the system works. Besides it, 
I still use MS-Windows for some tasks.

I've just finished installing Gentoo, and currently I'm having a
problem to get Speakup to speak via speech-dispatcher using ESpeak speech 
synthesiser.

I had to install ESpeak, Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from source, as 
they are not available from the stable branch of Gentoo's repository.

Now, I can use eSpeak as a standalone synthesiser, but
speech-dispatcher doesn't speak anything through eSpeak. For example, when I 
run the
command:
espeak -vpt "teste."
it speaks fine. Then I run:
speech-dispatcher
and it starts fine. I am sure that speech-dispatcher doesn't report errors,
because I've set log level to 4 and observed that it launches espeak-generic
OK. But when I run for test:
spd-say "test."
it doesn't report errors, but doesn't speak anything at all. I am sure that
my sound card is working correctly, because eSpeak speaks well when runing 
as
standalone, as I already said. But neither "spd-say" from speech-dispatcher
speaks anything, nor speechd-up does it...

Do you have any tip that could help me please?

Thanks,
Cleverson

"Be realistic; ask for the impossible."


		
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