Pulse Audio

[Janina Sajka]

Since we're on the topic, I need to report that I've managed to get
Speakup and Orca working on the same audio device using Pulse Audio for
the first time. I have not yet spent much time with this configuration,
but will certainly do so. It seems sufficiently robust to just possibly
be worth keeping.

Brief notes:

Orca with Speech-Dispatcher 0.8-5 as shipped by Fedora 20 driving Espeak 1.47.11-3 also packaged by Fedora 20.

Speakup using Bill Acker's espeakup compile for Fedora 19.

More soon.

Janina

Robert Spangler writes:
> This was the only method I could get to work which will allow
> Speakup/ESpeak to play nicely with Orca.  For some reason, I
> couldn't get the speechd-up and Speech-Dispatcher method working
> properly; although, I tried configuring it myself without any
> instructions. Speechd-up was saying that the softsynth device was
> busy so I figured that perhaps it was fighting with espeakup.  I
> disabled that and simply got no speech.  I'd like to get this method
> working eventually but this works for now.
> 
> On 3/6/2014 6:58 PM, Kyle wrote:
> >GNOME depends on Pulseaudio. You can manually break Pulseaudio so that
> >it doesn't work correctly, usually by symlinking /bin/true, but that can
> >cause problems when packages are updated.
> >
> >Your best bet, unless you have something like a USB headset that may or
> >may not always be plugged into the system, would be to connect
> >Pulseaudio through the Alsa Dmix plugin. The problem with doing this is
> >that Pulseaudio can no longer automatically detect hotplugged devices
> >such as USB headsets, as you will need to stop it from grabbing your
> >main hardware via udev. If you don't have a problem with this method,
> >instructions are available at
> >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_without_grabbing_hardware_device
> >This is in the Arch Linux wiki, but should work correctly in Debian as
> >well. Hope this helps.
> >~Kyle
> >http://kyle.tk/
> >
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