RastislavKish
commented
2 months ago Hello,
thanks for your feedback, and opening the issue!
From technical standpoint, I don't see a reason why nvda2speechd couldn't be used on NixOS. I admittedly do not have a lot of knowledge about the system given I haven't used it myself, I'm just briefly familiar with its concepts and stack. But one advantage nvda2speechd does have is the fact it's written in Rust. By nature, Rust links everything it can statically, therefore in theory you could avoid running into relocatability and folder structure issues other programs often have trouble with.
Basically, in order to get n2s working, you need to ensure the following:
- Wine / Whatever platform can run the software correctly on its own, i.e. there are no other issues
- The Windows software gets the fake nvda controller dll, plus the C++ std libs, this is something people tend to miss, check the paragraph just above the Usage section in the readme
- The fake dll has access to a standard networking stack. Does NixOS perform any special alterings in this regard? For example, isolated network interfaces, IP masks etc?
- The n2s server needs access to the speech dispatcher socket. On Ubuntu it's located under /run/user/$userId/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock. I would guess this could be similar on NixOS, but you may need to specifically allow the access if socket isolation is applied.
- And finally, just like the dll, the server also needs access to a relatively standard network stack, where it can directly communicate with the dll.
I do realize these points are rather generic, as I mentioned before, my experience with NixOS is very limited, so this is what can I suggest on the first look. Any error messages would also be very helpful in diagnosing the occurring issues.
celtichawk
So quick question.
I've run into this since I want to get a game and mod running under NixOS. Is there any way, shape, or form that I can have nvda2speechd pass the speech through to speech-dispatcher in NixOS? The releasdd version complains about missing files, or is this simply something that due to immutable and specifically NixOS as a distro, is not possible to do?so