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Not technically a SDL problem but I intend to use this for SDL (more
specifically, the proposed screen reader API) so I'm posting this
here.

The problem is with speech-dispatcher. In order to use it you need to
enable it first. Now, I thought that starting a speech-dispatcher
connection would be enough (the documentation says that programs
themselves would enable it), but at least here it doesn't seem to.
Basically, as-is I can't get any speech at all. Once I run another
program that outputs speech, suddenly it works just fine until I log
off. Argh. And yes, speech-dispatcher is always running, so I have no
idea what it wants to start working.

So, here are the questions:

1) How do I enable speech-dispatcher so I don't have to rely on
running another program first to make it work? (and yes, solutions
involving calling system() and such are valid as long as they're
reasonably portable among Linux distros)

2) How important is this issue? Users who need it would already be
running a speech based screen reader which in turn would have already
enabled speech-dispatcher in the first place, so they will never see
the issue in practice. Developers will run into it, but then again
developers should not expect the API to work without a screen reader
(or equivalent) present in the first place. And curious users who are
just messing with it should expect problems arising

Anyway, any ideas?
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So basically you need to start another program that does the same
thing to get the code to work? Sounds like you're missing something
that's poorly documented, I would suspect either
initialization-related or buffer-flushing-related. Does the program
that you're starting work correctly on it's own, or does it start
something up as well? Have you tried starting a second instance of
your dev program?
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2015-03-15 14:07 GMT-03:00, Jared Maddox:

Yep. For example, spd-say does the job (sadly, I can't seem to make it
do anything if I pass it the empty string, which means that so far I
can't just get away by running spd-say without having it say
anything).


Probably, and I *may* have missed something. I was wondering if
somebody happened to knwo though.


No idea. All I know is that my code won't output any speech at all
until I run something like spd-say, then my code works as intended no
matter how many times I run my program until the moment I close the
session.


Doesn't work.

Also mfw *headdesk* I just managed to make spd-say initialize
speech-dispatcher without making it say anything: spd-say " " (yep,
passing it a space). I wonder why I couldn't get something like this
to work before (maybe I didn't consider this option...?).

OK, I suppose that may do it for now, but if anybody has a better
(proper) suggestion, you're welcome.
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