getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

[Janina Sajka]

Pulseaudio is supposed to eliminate this problem, but I've never been
able to rely on pulseaudio working for me.

Under alsa both espeakup and speech-dispatcher are likely unable to
share the same hardware device. This is usually the case for me,
requiring I send the output of each to a different device.

Check carefully with a command like:

aplay -l |grep card

You're looking for cards that are labeled "analog."

On one of my laptops I have both hw:0,0 and hw0,2 labeled analog. I
simply set speech-dispatcher to use hw:0,2 in
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and all works as expected.

Janina

John G Heim writes:
> What is the trick to getting speakup with software speech and orca to work
> at the same time. I have both debian stretch and ubuntu bionic systems and
> on both machines, I have to disable espeakup to get orca to work. If I
> disable espeakup via the command, "systemctl disable espeakup" and reboot,
> orca works as normal. If I re-enable espeakup via, "systemctl enable
> espeakup", then I get no speech on the login screen or after I log in. After
> I log in, even playing sounds via aplay does not work.
> 
> I have a vague memory of having to recompile espeakup or something to get
> that to work.
> 
> 
> 
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Janina Sajka

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

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa