Espeakup, orca and pulseaudio

[Albert Sten-Clanton]

I'm writing this privately because it seems the message I just sent to the
Orca list overlaps yours in good part.

In perhaps arguable defense of Pulseaudio, I note that, if I'm not mistaken,
Vinux uses it and it seems to function.  I recall that Steve Holmes got it
working somewhat on his Arch system, but came away not wanting to use it.
Still, I'd think it should work on Arch if it does on Vinux.

One good thing that might have resulted from using Pulseaudio is this:  when
using Vinux, I could hear Orca at the same time I was listening to old-time
radio shows.  I couldn't get this using Arch.  I don't know enough to say
that Pulseaudio's the reason, but if it is, that would be one more incentive
to get the damned thing working right if possible.  What are your thoughts?

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 6:38 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Espeakup, orca and pulseaudio

Hello,
With gnome 3.0 on archlinux, pulseaudio seems to have become a dependency
and is the default system for sound when using gnome.

My general view has been pulseaudio solves problems which I never faced and
creates problems where none existed before. This has been reconfirmed by my
experiments with gnome 3.0 which has required the use of pulseaudio.

The issue created which I need some help with: I wish to have orca running
in gnome and I wish to use espeakup in the text consoles. The real issue
seems to be getting espeakup working with pulseaudio, as when I log in using
my standard user account speech from espeakup seems to stop working and
error messages get spewed out on tty1. I get a feeling its to do with
espeakup getting a connection with pulseaudio as I have tried it with the
ibmtts speakup connector and that does say that the connection is refused.
Both of these I believe are going through the pulseaudio alsa emulation
layer.

Ideally I would simply like to remove pulseaudio as my plain alsa set up
before worked fine and caused me no head aches in configuration. However I
have not been able to find anywhere in gnome 3.0 to tell it to use ALSA.

I suppose another solution might be to try and get pulseaudio working, but
it really seems to be more complicated than its worth at the moment. 
Anyone know how to configure espeakup and pulseaudio to work together?

Michael Whapples
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