You are using espeak with espeakup, right? If yes, then my suggestion is to purge pulseaudio, and configure alsa's dmix plugin if your audio hardware can't deal with multiple streams natively. Greg On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 08:06:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The older PC's I have for Linux are great and now speakup works > as it should so I have a new question. > > When the espeak engine is not processing text to speech, > is the sound device, usually card 0, really free to use for > normal sound activities? > > It seems to be but sometimes, the law of unintended > consequences rules. > > These systems do not handle multiple sound streams at all > so if something has control of the sound device, espeak stops > talking and if espeak is talking, playing and sometimes recording > with that device fails. > > I did try pulseaudio more than once as it is supposed to > give the effect of handling multiple streams but either I didn't > install it correctly or there was some other issue because I > never got it to work right. > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
