sd_generic breaks speech-dispatchter

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

I am able to reproduce this issue in Ubuntu 10.10. When espeak-generic is set as the speech engine, Orca is silent. There is no sound output. When espeak is set again, without restarting anything except Orca, speech is restored.

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Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612612

Lucid contains an outdated version of Speech Dispatcher (0.6 series), so I will test the current series (0.7) present in Maverick and later. I am unable to reproduce this on clean install of Maverick (10.10). orca picks up espeak-generic fine:

0. launch gnome-terminal, do everything that follows in it
1. uncomment line 236 of /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf (the one starting with AddModule "espeak-generic")
2. run command "killall speech-dispatcher" (ignoring if it failed)
3. run command "orca" (first time orca was ever run under that user)
4. select espeak-generic (choice 3) as speech output when asked (first question)
5. Orca picks up espeak-generic and uses it, even after logout/login and starting orca again.

Charlie, could you please provide exact step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce this on 10.10 (or preferably 11.04)? Thanks

I would have thought anyone needing orca would have it running before changing configuration files, thus, to reproduce this issue:

1. install Ubuntu 10.10
2. install Orca
3. run orca to insure it works
3. cd ~/.speech-dispatcher/
4. gedit speechd.conf
5. cursor down until you get to espeak-generic
6. remove the # at the front of the line
7. save the file
8. restart
9. start orca preferences, choose espeak-generic under speech tab, Speech synthesizer
10. you can now have no speech in orca, even though it was speaking until changing the synthesizer.
Changing the Speech synthesizer will allow orca to speak again. Stopping and starting orca, logging in and out, restarting the system all have no effect getting orca to speak with the espeak-generic speech synthesizer.

Charlie: do you have the espeak package installed? It is needed to have espeak-generic working