speech-dispatcher and espeak

Christopher Brannon chris at the-brannons.com
Tue Feb 22 11:16:30 EST 2011


Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> writes:

> As a new convert to Arch, I can also add that speech-dispatcher will
> only work properly if you are in the group "audio." I wasn't a member
> of audio in Ubuntu, and Sox works in Arch without the audio group,

Yes, you need to be in the audio group in order to access the sound
card.  I'd be really surprised if sox worked for a non-root user who
wasn't in that group.

Anyway, the dependency on pulse should be fixed, I believe.

-- Chris



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