speech-dispatcher blocking oss applications

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
As stated by one of the messages on the list, in your example, you should 
do:
aoss swift hello world and not just:
swift hello world.
I have just tested it on my debian box and it seem to work fine.
I used play for the oss application not swift.
HTH, Willem


On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> My problem with speech-dispatcher persists. I replaced the Debian
> speech-dispatcher package with the CVS download, and it still seems to
> block OSS applications when it is running, allowing those applications
> to work okay when it is not running. In the following short example,
> swift is the application that wants to use oss. The example starts with
> speech-dispatcher running, and swift fails. Killing speech-dispatcher
> and running swift again allows it to work. Running speech-dispatcher
> once more and repeating the swift run fails again. 
> 
> cq:speechd# swift hello world
> oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp
> cq:speechd#
> cq:speechd# kill -9 `pidof speech-dispatcher`
> cq:speechd#  
> cq:speechd# swift hello world
> cq:speechd#
> cq:speechd# speech-dispatcher
> cq:speechd# swift hello world
> oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp
> cq:speechd#
> 
> As reported earlier, speech-dispatcher is configured with flite as the
> only module loaded, and the flite config file confirms that it is using
> alsa. My alsa version is 1.0.14rc3, my kernel is 2.6.21 with speakup,
> my distro is Debian Sid. Other apps that fail in a similar way are
> madplay and flite, although all alsa applications work fine with or
> without speech-dispatcher running. This behavior began when moving up
> from the Debian 0.6.2 package, and it happens for root as well as
> normal users..
> 
> My mail is not being accepted at the speech-dispatcher mailing list,
> but hopefully someone here may have some suggestion about where I can
> look for more info about this issue. Hynek made some suggestions which
> I ruled out, so I remain in the dark for the moment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
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