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

[Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux gmail com>]

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. In fact, any sound produced by the system causes Orca to stop 
speaking for about 6 or 7 seconds after the sound has stopped. Consequently, I 
can't start playing a song or video while Orca is speaking, and I can't do 
anything at all on the computer while a song or video is playing. Is this a 
fairly new bug that should be reported or a still somewhat buggy feature 
introduced by complaints regarding responsiveness? Is there a way to get the 
gnome-speech espeak driver to once again use pulseaudio for output so that I can 
have speech while other sounds play? I can sacrifice a small bit of 
responsiveness for the ability to play music while using the computer to do 
other things.

Thanks for any help,
Lorenzo
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--Lorenzo Taylor