getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

[Jude DaShiell]

If you get the right case, you can get something other than a 2 inch pc
speaker too.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, John G Heim wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:52:06
> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>,
>     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together
>
> 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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