Running Speakup on Ubuntu Lynx?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  That will only work if you don't do anything that starts pulseaudio.  The default for pulseaudio
opens the sound card and no other apps can use it at that point.
In my opinion, pulseaudio is a badly behaved app with a developer who refuses to listen to the needs of blind users who use software speech.
It should be avoided as much as possible.
Ubuntu's decision to force pulseaudio on it's users is why I no longer run Ubuntu.

          Kenny

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:28:06AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> I can't really give any help for the pulse audio on system wide use
> but one thing you might try is using espeakup with alsa directly
> bypassing pulse audio.  To do that you give --with-alsa on the
> ./configure command line when configuring the package.  Sometimes a
> tweak is necessary in alsa.c for smooth output buffering but that can
> be managed if it works better than the default set-up.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> 
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