Pulseaudio is supposed to eliminate this problem, but I've never been able to rely on pulseaudio working for me. Under alsa both espeakup and speech-dispatcher are likely unable to share the same hardware device. This is usually the case for me, requiring I send the output of each to a different device. Check carefully with a command like: aplay -l |grep card You're looking for cards that are labeled "analog." On one of my laptops I have both hw:0,0 and hw0,2 labeled analog. I simply set speech-dispatcher to use hw:0,2 in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and all works as expected. Janina John G Heim writes: > What is the trick to getting speakup with software speech and orca to work > at the same time. I have both debian stretch and ubuntu bionic systems and > on both machines, I have to disable espeakup to get orca to work. If I > disable espeakup via the command, "systemctl disable espeakup" and reboot, > orca works as normal. If I re-enable espeakup via, "systemctl enable > espeakup", then I get no speech on the login screen or after I log in. After > I log in, even playing sounds via aplay does not work. > > I have a vague memory of having to recompile espeakup or something to get > that to work. > > > > -- > -- > John G. Heim; jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sip://jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
