Espeak under Debian/Ubuntu

[Kirk Reiser]

I don't know the answer to your specific question but you can
recompile espeakup to use alsa with espeak.  Just as a point of
interest if you don't find the solution you're looking for.

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> I have installed ubuntu 10.10 on a box, and have the speakup modules 
> installed.
> When I installed espeak it pulled in libportaudio2 which  pulled in jack 
> libraries.
>
> Now when I try to run espeak it tells me connection refused as portaudio 
> can't contact jack.
> Short of recompiling portaudio libraries is there a way to tell 
> espeak/portaudio to use alsa rather than Jack?
> I've looked on portaudio.com but haven't seen a way to configure the 
> portaudio library to do this.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
>
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