Did you try my guide? https://www.jookia.org/wiki/System-wide_speakup On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 05:08:14PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Thanks for the clarification about pipewire and why it is here. > > I didn't realize that pulseaudio is fading into the > sunset as it has been around and served well for quite a few > years. > > To remind those who have followed this thread today, the > only real problem I am talking about is minor compared with stuff > that is supposed to work but doesn't. > > It looks like one should be able to get speakup to work > older world of pure text-based command-line consoles since there > are things that runa little more smoothly there than when GUI > tools are needed. > > By the same token, the present implimentation of speakup > with gnome also does well and all I was hoping to do was have > both functionalities on the same system. > > Thanks for the information that has been provided as it > is useful and I am still interested if there is a way to do this > but at least things are about 95% working. > > Martin > > "Jason J.G. White" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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 Pipewire has superseded it.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. >