>>>>> "John" == John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: John> In debian stable (weezy) and testing (jessie), speakup with John> software speech crashes if you start orca. A fix may be in John> ubuntu because it's also in the old version of sonar which was John> based on ubuntu. I didn't check out how they did it but they John> probably compiled espeak with pulseaudio instead of alsa. IMO, John> the espeakpackage developers should make this an installation John> option. I cannot reproduce this. I've been using Debian with espeakup and orca quite successfully with wheezy and jessie. It's true that you cannot use espeakup at the same time as orca. The issue is that pulseaudio hogs alsa without dmix, so only pulse applications can play sound. For a variety of reasons you want pulseaudio to be per-session not global. If you started pulseaudio globally espeakup would use it, and if you really want to use speakup and Orca at the same time, then I'd recommend doing that; it is a system level configuration in /etc. However, I've found that I'm happier with espeakup until my graphical environment comes up, then sticking with Orca and emacspeak within X. --Sam _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list