speakup & orca in debian 7

[Trevor Astrope]

Are you using software speech with both speakup and orca? I've had this 
problem with sound not working on the command line after running orca. In 
my case, gnome/orca started a pulseaudio process running as my user, even 
though I have pulseaudio and speechd-up configured to run as a system 
daemon.

Killing the pulseaudio process running as my user gets sound back. You may 
need to restart speechd-up service as well, as I sometimes have a problem 
with this too, but I usually use hardware speech, so I don't remember the 
scenario where that is necessary to do as well.


On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, John G. Heim wrote:

> Sorry if this is an FAQ but is there a solution to that problem with running 
> both speakup & orca in debian 7?  Every time I've installed debian 7 (aka 
> wheezy), I can use speakup fine unless I log in at the GUI and run orca.  At 
> that point, speakup stops talking and nothing I've found short of rebooting 
> gets it working agin. I understand this has something to do with pulse audio 
> run in the GUI.
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