I am wondering what eSpeakUp is.
I may be clueless here, but I thought that SpeakUp was the screenreader, and
eSpeak was the synth?
Thanks for any clarification.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willem Venter" <***@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<***@linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: espeakup
Hi.
Pulseaudio takes complete control of the audio device, so when other
devices try to use the soundcard through alsa things break.
A work around I use is playing sound using dmix. This means a bit more
processing and possibly a little latency for programs using pulse, but
on the other hand it's better than broken sound.
Remove package pulseaudio-alsa, which provides compatibility layer
between ALSA applications and PulseAudio. After this your ALSA apps
will use ALSA directly without being hooked by Pulse.
Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa.
Find and uncomment lines which load back-end drivers. Add device
parameters as follows. Then find and comment lines which load
autodetect modules.
load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop
# load-module module-udev-detect
# load-module module-detect
After rebooting pulseaudio won't grab the sound device, but instead
plays it through dmix.
hth
Willem
Post by Mark PevetoHere's the error I was talking about earlier.
Back story: I'm trying to get console speech. Since i can't right now,
I'm doing this from a terminal, which reads badly. Once I type sudo
espeakup, it'll read the top of the console screen, and the login prompt
asking for a username. After that it gives an error which i'll post. I
know it's a pulseaudio problem. Most suggest I get rid of pulseaudio,
and if that's the only solution there is, I guess i'll have to, but that
creates more problems when it comes to having the system rediscover new
sound drivers. Long explanation short, it jacks things up!
Error follows.
function pa_simple_write(). Aborting.
It should be noted here that the error does not appear until I start to
type. It reads the login prompt, and once i hit the s for
southernprinc, my username, the error appears. If I could figure out
how, I might turn keyecho off, which I wanna do anyway, but I don't know
if that'd help anything.
There ya have it folks.
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