speakup goes oops/bye-bye on wheezy

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Let us know if you get anything to speak in gnome.  What I did to get
console things to speak again was to change  /etc/pulse/client.conf to
autospawn=no but maybe that breaks gnome.

Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:

> Well, good or not, I'm jumping on the work around bandwagon. I've had
> enough of trying to work with something for two days which I frankly
> see no need for (why break something which worked fine so far), and
> for which I can find no satisfactory answers after spending about an
> hour on google. Like others here, I moved /usr/bin/pulseaudio out of
> the way, and touched a new one into place. I ran dpkg-divert on it
> too, so debian won't try to helpfully replace my change. This means
> that I now have mplayer working again, and all I have to do is to
> figure out orca refusing to speak. I hate to say this about any free
> software project, but frankly, I hope pulseaudio dies a quick and
> quiet death. I certainly see no advantage to it over alsa.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 06:14:42PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> > I think it does exactly that by default. You can change the configuration
> > however. You can also run pasuspender to suspend it, and there's a command
> > under pacmd to suspend individual cards.
> > 
> > In general, though, I think the right way to deal with Pulse is to work with
> > it rather than against it by sorting out whatever the underlying problems are.
> > I think there's enough talent within the accessibility and Linux audio
> > communities to do this, but, so far, I haven't seen a good description of what
> > the real issues are or what needs to be done.
> > 
> > It seems that too many people are content with work-arounds and no one is
> > doing the real work to track down the root causes and fix them. That's a real
> > cause for concern, because in the long run it will only mean more problems for
> > new and existing users. Pulse is here to stay.
> > 
> > I have it working satisfactorily on my laptop and not quite satisfactorily on
> > my desktop system. I submitted a patch to Debian to ensure that the Espeak
> > package was compiled properly with Pulse support (previously, the Pulse
> > support was being overwritten during the build process). There's an open
> > Debian bug about problems with Pulse and Emacspeak speech servers.
> > 
> > I'm also waiting for patches to be integrated into FreeSWITCH to support Pulse
> > - there are people working on those already.
> > 
> > Pacmd is an interesting tool. If there is active audio input/output, you can
> > actually get a list of all the applications that are interacting with the
> > Pulse server, and you can adjust the volume of the audio for each application.
> > You can also move applications from one audio device to another, though I
> > haven't experimented with that yet. There are many other features as well.
> > 
> > The key to making Pulse work reliably is to make sure that nothing you're
> > using tries to bypass it by writing directly to the Alsa devices.
> > 
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> > 
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