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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