Hello bill I've tried the steps mentioned however i get choppy speech with speakup using espeakup. I'm not sure what the problem is. I disabled pulseaudio from starting up in gnome. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 3:09 PM Subject: Re: speakup in ubuntu 10.04 > The solution is to run pulseaudio in system-wide mode, like we do in > Vinux, built on Ubuntu Lucid. In short: > > - Edit /etc/default/pulseaudio and set PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1. > - Edit /etc/pulse/client.conf, and set auto-spawn=no > - Edit /etc/pulse/system.pa, and set 'load-module > module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1' > > The first item causes pulseaudio to start in system-wide mode on > startup. The second keeps gdm from starting it's own copy. The third > disables authentication, and allows all users to access the sound > card. > > Bill > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Alonzo cuellar <mariachiac at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm unable to get speakup to work in Ubuntu 10.04. It works, but orca >> stops speaking. I'm not sure how to fix this. If gnome is not running >> speakup will work just find. >> I've disabled puseaudio form starting in gnome, but its still installed. >> Please advise. >> >> Alonzo >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >