getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Thu Nov 22 02:13:03 EST 2018


I run orca with speech dispatcher using Alsa and if I want to play
audio, I enable spawn=yes in my /etc/pulse/client.conf.  Maybe not the
best solution, but its what I have come up with so far.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:24:04 -0500,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> John Covici, le mer. 21 nov. 2018 10:05:37 -0500, a ecrit:
> > How about using speech dispatcher for speakup?  Would that make things
> > work better together since orca also uses speech dispatcher?
> 
> You'd have to run speech-dispatcher as a system service for both the
> root-run espeakup and the user-run orca to be able to use it.
> 
> But then you can't play audio as user in your Xorg session since
> speech-dispatcher will keep the audio open as root.
> 
> Samuel
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