voxin speakup connector and Pulse

[Janina Sajka]

Perhaps, but is Speakup usable? Every time I've tested Speakup with the
ViaVoice engine running over pulseaudio, the results are pretty choppy
and not really usable, imo.

Also, if you start audio playing in one tty then change tty's, the audio
stops until you return to the tty. At least pulse was still doing this
last time I checked.

All this causes me to terminate pulseaudio with extreme prejudice on my
systems:

sudo -i
rm -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio
touch /usr/bin/pulseaudio
chmod 444 /usr/bin/pulseaudio

Janina

Rob Hudson writes:
> I solved this problem. If you are on a gui, install gnome-alsamixer
> and open it up. You are then presented with tab controls for each
> audio card you have installed.
> my soundblaster has a checkbox that says something like "analog
> source." Check that box. Then go back into your terminal and do as
> root
> alsactl store
> alsa force-reload
> Then restart your pulseaudio server, in whatever way is appropriate
> for your distro.
> This is just a front end for  alsamixer, so you can probably do this
> in alsamixer itself, but I found it rather hard to navigate with
> speakup. This way was a lot easier.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka"
> <janina at rednote.net>
> To: <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:32 PM
> Subject: Re: voxin speakup connector and Pulse
> 
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >If there's a way to avoid this situation, I haven't found it. I console
> >myself that the Speakup Connector isn't the only ill behaved audio
> >application in this regard, but I'll spare us all chapter and verse on
> >that topic. Suffice it to say that I now require a minimum of two audio
> >devices to run screen reader support on Linux, one for Speakup and one
> >for Orca. A third is minimal for other audio apps, imo.
> >
> >PS: One example of other hoggy apps would be Fluidsynth with aconnect.
> >
> >Janina
> >
> >Rob Hudson writes:
> >>This really works amazingly well and I love it. However...
> >>This does not seem to play well with pulse audio. When I run it,
> >>it hogs the entire
> >>sound card to itself, causing me to have to switch the desktop
> >>to a different sound
> >>card. Now this probably is not a big deal since I do in fact
> >>have other cards to
> >>switch to, but is there a way to prevent it hogging the entire
> >>card to itself?
> >>_______________________________________________
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> >>Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >-- 
> >
> >Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200
> >sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
> >Email: janina at rednote.net
> >
> >Linux Foundation Fellow
> >Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org
> >
> >The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> >Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
> >Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
> >
> >_______________________________________________
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> >Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina at rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair,	Protocols & Formats	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
	Indie UI			http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/