speakup & orca in debian 7

[John G. Heim]

If I kill pulseaudio, do I still get speech with orca?



On 11/01/13 14:23, Trevor Astrope wrote:
> 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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