getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

[Samuel Thibault]

John G Heim, le mar. 20 nov. 2018 10:13:46 -0600, a ecrit:
> I found a vague howto on getting dmix to work but it says that if you use
> dmix, you have to configure each sound app to use it. Is that right?

No, you can configure it globally.

> Is this problem part of the kernel-space vs user-space problem?

No, it's espeakup, i.e. a userland daemon which accesses the sound
board.

> I would settle for getting speech during start up. I can probably put
> something in the X11 configuration to disable espeakup once the GUI
> starts up. But I am wondering if there is a path forward on this.

The path forward was implemented in time for Buster: espeakup shuts
itself down when switching to graphical mode.

Samuel