getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

John G Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Tue Nov 20 16:49:10 EST 2018


Is there any way to get speakup to work through the PC speaker?



On 11/20/18 1:11 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Janina Sajka, le mar. 20 nov. 2018 10:31:03 -0500, a ecrit:
>> Pulseaudio is supposed to eliminate this problem,
> 
> If espeakup was running as the same user as the one who is logged in,
> yes. But it'd mean you wouldn't have screen reading before logging in.
> 
>> Under alsa both espeakup and speech-dispatcher are likely unable to
>> share the same hardware device.
> 
> Indeed, unless enabling the dmix plugin.
> 
> Using different sound boards is another solution indeed.
> 
> Samuel
> 


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