Launchpad has imported 27 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467531.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-18T01:38:02+00:00 Matthias wrote: I wonder why we don't configure festival to make it work with pulseaudio. Running festival with our package, while music is playing, yields: [mclasen@localhost ~]$ festival --tts text Linux: can't open /dev/dsp This can be fixed by adding the following lines to /etc/festival/siteinit.scm: (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay $FILE") (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) (Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'snd) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-18T13:13:42+00:00 Matthew wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I have a big update planned for after then F10 release and I'll get this in then. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-18T21:07:20+00:00 Matthias wrote: If you don't mind, I'd really like to get this in before F10. We're shipping with PA on by default, and it would be a bit of a bummer to have non-working speech as a consequence of that. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-19T00:42:35+00:00 Matthew wrote: I'm fine with that -- I just don't have time to work on it. Some notes: This should go in /usr/share/festival/lib/init.scm rather than in /etc/festival/siteinit.scm since it's a system default rather than a local customization. Are there any downsides to using this method? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-19T02:03:01+00:00 Matthias wrote: Ok, I do the work to get this in the package, and I can put it into lib/init.scm. I've asked Lennart for his opinion about the best way to make festival work with PA, I'll wait for his response before building this. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-20T15:19:01+00:00 Lennart wrote: If festival behaves correctly we could simply run festival prefixed with "padsp". Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-20T15:25:16+00:00 Matthew wrote: > If festival behaves correctly we could simply run festival prefixed with > "padsp". Who is "we"? Any program which uses festival? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-20T18:23:36+00:00 Matthias wrote: For F11, we should probably take a look at using speech-dispatcher with orca. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-20T18:24:53+00:00 Matthias wrote: see http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:15:45+00:00 Ray wrote: Two thoughts: 1) should probably use paplay instead of aplay since it gives us the ability to name the stream in pavucontrol 2) isn't this a bad idea in general? I mean doesn't it mean festival will write out all audio to a file, and play the file adding lots of latency for orca users? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:26:24+00:00 Lennart wrote: They use aplay? Oh my! That's horrible! Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:34:31+00:00 Matthias wrote: Does orca currently work at all when pulseaudio is running ? As I said: longer-term, sound-dispatcher may be a better option. Or maybe just write a pa backend for festival. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:40:13+00:00 Ray wrote: Lennart, it doesn't use aplay right now, but Matthias's proposal in comment 0 was to use aplay. Matthias, yea I was using orca the other day to test gnome bug 535827 and i was getting audio okay. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:41:17+00:00 Ray wrote: also interesting is the festival source tree seems to suggest it has a libesound backend, which should work with pa... Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:42:47+00:00 Ray wrote: Actually, I can't reproduce the failure in comment 0. Maybe it was broken for some reason and has since been fixed? Can you still reproduce the original issue? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-24T21:44:06+00:00 Ray wrote: scratch comment 13. i missed the "while playing music" bit. i can reproduce if rhythmbox is playing music. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T15:42:51+00:00 Lennart wrote: Anyone tried whether this would work? (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "pacat --channels=1 --rate=$SR $FILE") Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T16:09:38+00:00 Ray wrote: so running (Paramter.get 'Audio_Method) yields, linux16audio instead of esdaudio doing (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'esdaudio) then starting rhythmbox and playing music, followed by: (SayText "hello") gives the message "hello" on top of the music. I think we just need to change the default audio backend to esdaudio. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T16:11:29+00:00 Ray wrote: Matthias pointed out this might break festival for runlevel 3 users. Lennart, do you know if it will? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T16:36:18+00:00 Matthias wrote: To answer that question: ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor #<Utterance 0xb7197818> Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T17:14:42+00:00 Lennart wrote: The thing with esd-style autospawning is that it is racy, does not do locking while testing whether to startup a new instance. I'd prefer if we didn't rely n esd style autospawning. Which leaves us the options. a) use pacat or b) make sure that pulseaudio --start was rung and completed before festival becomes active. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T19:01:40+00:00 Ray wrote: pacat doesn't work if pulseaudio isn't running, right? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T20:15:29+00:00 Matthias wrote: Yes, I think the only solution that has a chance of working in the absense of PA is aplay (which is why I put that in the initial comment, btw...) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-27T23:53:39+00:00 Lennart wrote: Since pacat links against libpulse it would use the race-free PA-style autospawning. Hence using pacat is fine. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/26 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-28T00:37:23+00:00 Matthew wrote: (In reply to comment #16) > Anyone tried whether this would work? > > (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "pacat --channels=1 --rate=$SR $FILE") So, on my rawhide system, this makes a horrible loud static noise. But this system has been constantly tracking rawhide for a year and a half or, and pulseaudio has always worked inconsistently. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-28T00:50:09+00:00 Ray wrote: It works on my system in X. Haven't tried from runlevel 3. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-10-28T01:59:55+00:00 Ray wrote: okay i built festival with the pacat workaround for now. We should revisit this at some point, though. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/comments/29 ** Changed in: festival (Fedora) Status: Unknown => Fix Released ** Changed in: festival (Fedora) Importance: Unknown => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209900 Title: Festival is not compatible with pulseaudio (won't speak when other app is playing sound) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/209900/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
