speakup & orca in debian 7

[Devon Stewart]

Isn't there a way to use alsa's dmix plugin to either replace, or at least augment, pulse? Also, this is assuming that Alsa is being used from the CLI.

-Devon

On 2013/11/02, at 4:41, "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:

> 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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