espeakup Shouldn't Presume Pulseaudio

[Willem van der Walt]

The idea is that one of the options allow to build espeak so that it will 
use pulse if it is running, but if not, fall back on alsa.
The way espeak is written, it might not be that easy to make this 
configurable at runtime.
Under Vinux which is a derivitive  of Ubuntu, I ripped out pulseaudio and 
still have a talking orca, but as I normally live at the console, it has 
not seen much testing.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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