speakup, audio solutions

[Willem van der Walt]

I have also taken out pulseaudio and all I had to do was to add all the 
users to the audio group, set speech-dispatcher to use alsa and all the 
things I tried to use worked with sound.
One can still assosiate the applications needed to open files using 
/etc/mailcap
One can even have one application opening the file in console mode and 
another one opening the same file in graphics mode.
This is done by adding a test line to the mailcap entry which test if the 
DISPLAY variable is set or not.
HTH, Willem


On Tue, 3 Dec 2013, Janina Sajka wrote:

>
> Rob Hudson writes:
>> If you have gnome or a variant installed, my understanding is that
>> you can't remove pulse audio without breaking stuff.
>
>
> Perhaps, but I don't find it has gotten in my way at all.
>
> Maybe this is why I can't click on an audio stream in Firefox and have
> it auto play, but this isn't how I want to use Firefox anyway. Instead,
> I save the file on my hd and play it from one of my Speakup consoles
> with mplayer. Frankly, I don't want FF playing music through the same
> audio device I use for Orca. I understand there's configuration
> somewhere in the gui for associating different types of audio streams
> with different devices. I used to configure that. I don't bother
> anymore.
>
> Also, I know I don't have the earcons available in Gnome.
>
> Orca itself works perfectly well, is very snappy, and just not a problem
> in any way.
>
> So, I can't say I mind whatever it is I've broken. It's just not
> tripping me up yet.
>
> Janina
>
>
>
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