espeakup Shouldn't Presume Pulseaudio

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Willem, this is helpful info.

However, isn't this a design flaw? Why is there an "always" about this
in the first place? At the very least, shouldn't this be a run time
configuration option and not a builtin?

In the screen reader world we're in the position of wanting alsa for
speakup, but pulseaudio for speech-dispatcher and orca these days. As
best as I can figure, from having poked around on this issue recently,
it should be possible to do this. Am I wrong? Isn't that what the
pulseaudio utility pasuspender is all about?

Janina

Willem van der Walt writes:
> Hi,
> Last time I looked, this was configurable in the make file.
> You can compile espeak such that it would always use alsa.
> HTH, Willem
> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >The latest Espeak I have, version 1.46.02, appears to insist on using
> >pulse audio if it finds pulse installed on the system. In other words,
> >commands like:
> >
> >pasuspender espeak hello
> >
> >do not have the intended effect.
> >
> >This is wrong, very wrong. And, it wreaks havoc between Speakup and
> >Orca. Where to direct audio output should at least be a configurable
> >option, but most certainly not the result of some inbuilt huristic.
> >
> >Janina
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