I use pulseaudio on my system. I have installed the tts applications espeak and flite. Both of which work perfectly when called from the commandline, but fail to work when called via spd-say. I need them to work via spd-say, because I want to configure a TTS engine for Okular. Here is the output for sudo systemctl status speech-dispatcherd.service

● speech-dispatcherd.service - Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis.
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/speech-dispatcherd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-01-18 00:30:18 IST; 2min 9s ago
  Process: 1067 ExecStart=/usr/bin/speech-dispatcher -d (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: Starting Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis....
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname speech-dispatcher: [Fri Jan 18 00:30:18 2019 : 363344] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8.8 starting
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: speech-dispatcherd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: speech-dispatcherd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: Failed to start Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis..

Here is the output for journalctl -xe

➜ journalctl -xe

Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname sudo:       codingcoffee : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/codingcoffee ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl restart speech-dispatcherd.service
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by codingcoffee(uid=0)
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: Starting Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis....
-- Subject: A start job for unit speech-dispatcherd.service has begun execution
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel 
-- 
-- A start job for unit speech-dispatcherd.service has begun execution.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 4254.
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname speech-dispatcher: [Fri Jan 18 00:30:18 2019 : 363344] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.8.8 starting
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: speech-dispatcherd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
-- Subject: Unit process exited
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel 
-- 
-- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit speech-dispatcherd.service has exited.
-- 
-- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: speech-dispatcherd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
-- Subject: Unit failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel 
-- 
-- The unit speech-dispatcherd.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname systemd: Failed to start Speech-Dispatcher an high-level device independent layer for speech synthesis..
-- Subject: A start job for unit speech-dispatcherd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel 
-- 
-- A start job for unit speech-dispatcherd.service has finished with a failure.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 4254 and the job result is failed.
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname audit: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=speech-dispatcherd comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=fail>
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1547751618.383:189): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=speech-dispatcherd comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=>
Jan 18 00:30:18 archlinux-hostname sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jan 18 00:30:19 archlinux-hostname sudo:       codingcoffee : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/codingcoffee ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl status speech-dispatcherd.service
Jan 18 00:30:19 archlinux-hostname sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by codingcoffee(uid=0)
Jan 18 00:30:19 archlinux-hostname sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

Here is the output to my speech-dispatcher config file ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf

LogLevel  3
LogDir  "default"
DefaultRate   0
DefaultPitch   0  
DefaultVolume 100
DefaultLanguage   en
AudioOutputMethod   pulse
DefaultModule   espeak
Include "clients/*.conf"

So I have a 64-bit Linux Mint 17 system and I am trying to set up a chroot environment with a 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04-based system (actually something called Vinux, an Ubuntu remix). The problem is that an application using the sound output (both systems use pulseaudio) from within the chroot is not heard until I switch back to the console where my host system is running (namely, my host's X server; haven't tried the text consoles). Here are the steps that I am using to set up, enter and test the chroot. The chroot filesystem is mounted on /mnt: sudo mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev sudo mount --rbind /proc /mnt/proc sudo mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys sudo mount --rbind /tmp /mnt/tmp sudo mount --rbind /run /mnt/run sudo mount --bind /var/lib/dbus /mnt/var/lib/dbus sudo chroot /mnt now in chroot as root user: su export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 startx -- :1 automatic switch to second X server Ctrl-Alt-T to open terminal now in terminal cat /dev/urandom | grep -ao "[a-z]" | espeak sound only plays when I press the Ctrl-Alt-... sequence to switch back to my host X server. I have read every page that I can find about setting up pulseaudio for a chroot but none of the instructions cause any change in this behaviour. EDIT: Got it to work such that the sound output from the chroot plays, but now any sound output from the host system is suspended until the chroot session ends, not matter which console I switch to.

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Is it possible to access highlighted text via a shell script? I want to make a keyboard shortcut to use 'espeak' to read highlighted text.

As I know I can use system() function to using Linux terminal's commands inside my C++ code. For example system("aplay sound.wav");. I don't know can I write all the Linux commands like this or not, but aplay works. I want to use espeak in my C++ program.I like espeak reads each string I pass trough it(something like what aplay does in above code but respect to "strings"). Is it better to call it by system() function or it's better to write a code like this inside my C++ code and change the char* text whenever I wanted to read a new string?: #include #include #include espeak_POSITION_TYPE position_type; espeak_AUDIO_OUTPUT output; char *path=NULL; int Buflength = 500, Options=0; void* user_data; t_espeak_callback *SynthCallback; espeak_PARAMETER Parm; char Voice[] = {"English"}; char *text = {"this is a english test"}; unsigned int Size,position=0, end_position=0, flags=espeakCHARS_AUTO, *unique_identifier; int main(int argc, char* argv[] ) { output = AUDIO_OUTPUT_PLAYBACK; int I, Run = 1, L; espeak_Initialize(output, Buflength, path, Options ); espeak_SetVoiceByName(Voice); const char *langNativeString = "en"; //Default to US English espeak_VOICE voice; memset(&voice, 0, sizeof(espeak_VOICE)); // Zero out the voice first voice.languages = langNativeString; voice.name = "US"; voice.variant = 2; voice.gender = 1; espeak_SetVoiceByProperties(&voice); Size = strlen(text)+1; espeak_Synth( text, Size, position, position_type, end_position, flags, unique_identifier, user_data ); espeak_Synchronize( ); return 0; } Which one is faster?

I've successfully used a hook under Linux with this article: http://hackerboss.com/overriding-system-functions-for-fun-and-profit/ Now I want to make my .so file load every time espeak loads up, no matter if it's called from another application. How do I do that?

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