Espeakup and Arch

[Austin Seraphin]

Yes you got it! Thank you so much! I think the combination of the two suggestions helped. Speech now comes out of my default, and "aplay -d default <filename.wav>" works too. I find it ironic that after all this mucking about with asound.conf, the final solution came from just deleting it. So it goes. Thanks again. Now I'll have to enable pulseaudio on a user basis, but I think I like that better, it sounded crackly when I tried using it with espeak. Hmm I wonder if this will solve those other weird alsa issues I had. Yes I think you may have something here.

 - Austin

On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:

> Austin Seraphin <au at sunbeem.net> writes:
> 
>> I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.39 and espeak has changed its default
>> output to a different soundcard.
> 
> Are you also running gnome?
> If you are, then it wasn't your kernel upgrade that broke espeakup, it
> was the installation of the pulseaudio-alsa package.
> This comes along as a dependency of gnome.
> The problem is that it contains a /etc/asoundrc file that forces alsa
> applications to use pulseaudio.
> espeakup runs as root, and I believe that root cannot start its own
> pulseaudio instance.
> The quick fix is to comment out everything in /etc/asoundrc.
> Then, if you want to redirect alsa applications to pulseaudio when they
> run under your user account, edit ~/.asoundrc appropriately.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -- Chris
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