Re: [orca-list] Pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher/gnome-speech in Ubuntu.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:43:06PM EST, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> Luke Yelavich napsal(a):
> > I have requested permission to upload a change so that speech-dispatcher doesn't start by default.
> This is a not a good solution, it showed to be very confusing for the  
> users in case of both
> Festival before and now Speech Dispatcher.  A side effect of permitting  
> Speech Dispatcher
> in /etc/defaults/ will still be that the rest of the audio is destroyed  
> if the user is using
> Pulse Audio. This is even worse, I believe, because now Speech  
> Dispatcher doesn't start
> by default and we still have the original problem.

I don't quite understand. The way I see things currently, given that my upload is allowed, is this. The 
system is installed with gnome-speech. The user wishes to switch to speech-dispatcher, so they install it. 
Since it is not running at system boot, pulseaudio still functions. They can then go about configuring 
speech-dispatcher the way they want. If they don't want pulse, they can turn it off. If they do want it, they 
can configure speech-dispatcher to run as their user, any way they see fit.

> Can't we at least change the configuration of the output modules from  
> "alsa" to "pulse"

Yes, I could do that.

> and start a Pulse Audio daemon under the speech-dispatcher user from  
> /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher?

No, we can not. PulseAudio will never run system wide, or even specifically for another daemon user by 
default, particularly at this late stage. There is just over a week till hardy is released, I'm pushing it as 
it is. 

Luke
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