If there is a way to use dmix to augment/replace pulse, I'd love to know about it. The problem here is that espeakup uses alsa directly instead of going through pulse. The only two ways I can think of to fix this would be either to be able to run espeakup as a normal user, which should force it to use pulse by virtue of opening alsa as a regular user from what I understand, or to add pulse support to espeakup. Actually, espeak uses portaudio if I remember right, so maybe it's as simple as portaudio supporting pulse. Greg On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:52:48AM +0900, Devon Stewart wrote: > Isn't there a way to use alsa's dmix plugin to either replace, or at least augment, pulse? Also, this is assuming that Alsa is being used from the CLI. > > -Devon > > On 2013/11/02, at 4:41, "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote: > > > If I kill pulseaudio, do I still get speech with orca? > > > > > > > > On 11/01/13 14:23, Trevor Astrope wrote: > >> Are you using software speech with both speakup and orca? I've had this > >> problem with sound not working on the command line after running orca. > >> In my case, gnome/orca started a pulseaudio process running as my user, > >> even though I have pulseaudio and speechd-up configured to run as a > >> system daemon. > >> > >> Killing the pulseaudio process running as my user gets sound back. You > >> may need to restart speechd-up service as well, as I sometimes have a > >> problem with this too, but I usually use hardware speech, so I don't > >> remember the scenario where that is necessary to do as well. > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, John G. Heim wrote: > >> > >>> Sorry if this is an FAQ but is there a solution to that problem with > >>> running both speakup & orca in debian 7? Every time I've installed > >>> debian 7 (aka wheezy), I can use speakup fine unless I log in at the > >>> GUI and run orca. At that point, speakup stops talking and nothing > >>> I've found short of rebooting gets it working agin. I understand this > >>> has something to do with pulse audio run in the GUI. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> --- > >>> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Speakup mailing list > >>> Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > --- > > John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
