getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

[John G Heim]

I don't think PC speakers are rare at all. I am responsible for over 100 
desktops and every one of them has a PC speaker. Of course, they are all 
Dells. But even the machines I built myself for my own use with Asus 
mobos have PC speakers. I find it hard to believe there exist mobos that 
don't have a PC speaker connector. The machine might not have anything 
connected to it but the connector is there.  It's like with serial 
ports. There are plenty of mobos available with serial port header 
blocks. You just have to buy a cable to get the DB9 port.  You might 
have to buy a PC speaker if you're building your own machine.

It's worth a couple of extra bucks to get a machine with a PC speaker 
because then you can configure a grub init tune.

On 11/21/18 8:16 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Man, those have become as rare as hen's teeth. And they're not about to
> make a resurgence.
> 
> Furthermore, they tend to be buried in amongst all kinds of other
> hardware. Is that really how you would want to orient your speaking monitor?
> Deep in the bowels of some computer case?
> 
> I know I want to go exactly the opposite way. I've my audio out running
> through a desktop Mackie mixer and usually talking through some quality
> desktop speakers. If I need, I can route to some serious JBL IONs. I'm
> contemplating adding Google Cast to my options.
> 
> Janina
> 
> John G Heim writes:
>> 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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