Re: [orca-list] Orca, gnome-speech and pulseaudio

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:55:46AM EST, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> This message will probably be the reverse of other questions I have seen 
> on this list regarding pulseaudio.
>
> I am running Ubuntu Jaunty with all the latest updates as of the posting 
> of this message. For the last day or so, Orca using gnome-speech is 
> bypassing pulseaudio. This causes the speech to be slightly more 
> responsive, but at the expense of no longer being able to listen to music 
> or youtube videos while doing other things.

I'll look into this. I would probably suggest you disable/remove pulseaudio if you really don't need it, since gnome-speech + espeak will now use alsa. I am probably going to do this for default accessibility installs for Ubuntu jaunty anyway, but nevertheless, I'll see whats going on here.

Luke