espeak and orca, was: Re: Whonix/Tails

[Gregory Nowak]

What you're describing happens because of
pulseaudio. Orca/speech-dispatcher are using pulseaudio, while
espeakup is using the sound card directly, thus no speech from
speakup. You can:
1. Rebuild espeakup to use pulseaudio. I haven't done this, but
   understand it is doable. or:

2. Disable gdm3 from running. You can then use startx to bring up
   xorg, and espeakup/speakup will be back and talking when you end
   your x session. Unfortunately, espeakup doesn't talk for me in
   other consoles while I have the x session launched. So, if you
   intend to keep long term x sessions open, as well as use the text
   consoles, then you'll probably want to recompile espeakup to use
   pulseaudio.

Greg


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 09:05:21AM -0400, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> This is indeed the problem in Manjaro Linux.  I switched to "pure" Arch
> with Antergos (easier and faster to install) and the problem still exists.
> Vinux users are reporting the problem also.
> 
> It seems as soon as the ORCA starts speaking, speakup dies.  Systemctl
> reports espeakup is running.
> 
> But no speech in console until I reboot.
> 
> As I said this seems to be for Vinux based on Ubuntu, Arch/Antergos/Manjaro.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> David
> 


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