Since we're on the topic, I need to report that I've managed to get Speakup and Orca working on the same audio device using Pulse Audio for the first time. I have not yet spent much time with this configuration, but will certainly do so. It seems sufficiently robust to just possibly be worth keeping. Brief notes: Orca with Speech-Dispatcher 0.8-5 as shipped by Fedora 20 driving Espeak 1.47.11-3 also packaged by Fedora 20. Speakup using Bill Acker's espeakup compile for Fedora 19. More soon. Janina Robert Spangler writes: > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina at rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
