Problems setting up speech-dispatcher on Fedora 10

[James Simmons]

I have been struggling to set up speech-dispatcher on Fedora 10.  I used to use Xubuntu and had it running OK there, so I do have some experience with the software.

Fedora 10 uses pulse-audio rather than ALSA.  That seems to be the root of the problem.  I can edit the espeak.conf file in the modules directory to use "pulse" rather than "alsa" and speech-dispatcher -d will run without complaint.  However, when I run spd-say "Hello" no words are spoken.  If I leave the espeak.conf at "alsa" I get messages complaining that espeak could not do something involving pulse-audio when I run speech-dispatcher -d, and as a result the espeak module could not be loaded.

I noticed that the latest speech-dispatcher has a new utility spd-conf that the version that ships with Fedora 10 does not provide.  I decided to give this a try, so I uninstalled speech-dispatcher using RPM, downloaded the source, and ran ./configure, make all, make install.  When I try to run spd-conf it says that it cannot find a speechd module its trying to import.  I can't see where this module could come from if not from the speech dispatcher source.

speech-dispatcher worked very well for me under ALSA, and your website seems to recommend running it that way.  Is it possible to not run pulse-audio on Fedora 10, and if so how would I go about setting it up that way?

Thanks,

James Simmons
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