espeak and orca, was: Re: Whonix/Tails

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Or how about speakup using speech dispatcher -- would not that work as
well?

Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:

> 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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