This was the only method I could get to work which will allow Speakup/ESpeak to play nicely with Orca. For some reason, I couldn't get the speechd-up and Speech-Dispatcher method working properly; although, I tried configuring it myself without any instructions. Speechd-up was saying that the softsynth device was busy so I figured that perhaps it was fighting with espeakup. I disabled that and simply got no speech. I'd like to get this method working eventually but this works for now. On 3/6/2014 6:58 PM, Kyle wrote: > GNOME depends on Pulseaudio. You can manually break Pulseaudio so that > it doesn't work correctly, usually by symlinking /bin/true, but that can > cause problems when packages are updated. > > Your best bet, unless you have something like a USB headset that may or > may not always be plugged into the system, would be to connect > Pulseaudio through the Alsa Dmix plugin. The problem with doing this is > that Pulseaudio can no longer automatically detect hotplugged devices > such as USB headsets, as you will need to stop it from grabbing your > main hardware via udev. If you don't have a problem with this method, > instructions are available at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#ALSA.2Fdmix_without_grabbing_hardware_device > This is in the Arch Linux wiki, but should work correctly in Debian as > well. Hope this helps. > ~Kyle > http://kyle.tk/ >
