While we're discussing clarifications, note that Pulseaudio is
effectively deprecated now. Pipewire has superseded it. Also, Pipewire
includes an implementation of the Pulseaudio client API, so that client
applications designed for Pulseaudio still work normally under Pipewire.
If you want a good, long-term solution to your audio issues, which seem
to be at the core of what you're discussing here, then supporting
Pipewire and Wireplumber would be the best path to take.
Wireplumber configures audio routing policies for Pipewire. Its
configuration language was recently changed, and I haven't had any
experience with it.
On 2/9/24 14:42, Kirk Reiser wrote:
Hi Martin: I am quite dense, so maybe you already stated the issue and
I just missed it. What is the exact issue? Speakup doesn't start on
boot? Speakup doesn't run at all? Speakup won't run while gnome and
orca are running? If it is the boot issue, zookia posted a link on the
speakup list about getting that working. If it's they don't play nice
together, you'll need to provide more info because they work just fine
together here. But, having said that I don't use gnome, I use i3 and
storms i38 scripts and startx. I'd appreciate it if you could clarify
the issue please.
Kirk
On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Martin McCormick wrote:
It looks like speech-dispatcher is running and was started on
boot and is serving all the gnome terminals that is, the first
two consoles. They both talk but behave identically as gnome
consoles. The remaining 3 consoles are not GUI so are mute right
now except for the beep which comes from the sounder on the main
board but sound does result if I play noise, tones or anything
else through sox so, if speakup was in the output path, it should
speak.
As I said, I don't want to mess up orca speech since it
works fine, just switch inputs to speakup from gnome while I am
using the text consoles and then go back to gnome when needed.
This installation started as a debian install a couple of
years ago in which I got speech going by typing the s character
to get a talking installer and then went from there after
installing the gnome desktop. I didn't even know that pulseaudio
is not the sound system of choice but pipewire is so I'm getting
smarter by the minute. I'm still not sure what I am learning,
but so far, so good.
Martin
