Re: [orca-list] Trouble setting up speech-dispatcher with orca

[Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com>]

I have tried having direct ALSA access with PulseAudio, and I hear it
can be done, but I didn't get there.  If someone knows of a solid
configuration, I'd like to try it!

Bill

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:
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> With all this muss and fuss over Pulse Audio, can't a system implement
> Pulse in whatever way it wants and just run Speech Dispatcher with
> ALSA along side of Pulse? Like now, some apps run OSS and others use
> ALSA as long as the support is available from the kernel.
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> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:40:04AM -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
> > Hi, Halim.  I recommend that for now, we run PulseAudio as a
> > system-wide service in Ubuntu, rather than remove it.  It works very
> > well for me in both Karmic and Lucid.  This summer, I plan to help
> > make PulseAudio work well the "right" way with speakup, speechd-up,
> > and a few other places that traditionally require system-wide mode,
> > but as long as we've got critical apps that expect system-wide sound,
> > please ignore the recomendations against system-wide mode.
> > System-wide mode works much better than removing PulseAudio, IMO.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > On So, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:23:56 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > > case Arch decides to go with pulse as a default some day.  In which
> > > > case, I will construct a speech-dispatcher-git package supporting
> > > > this.  I just haven't made it a huge priority since I have a SB live
> > > > multi channel sound card here.
> > >
> > > The goal should be not to make pulse as default audio output server!
> > > We have already lost ubuntu in this area.
> > > Pulseaudio breaks console a11y.
> > > Mooving all applications to userland doesn't work in all places and
> > > running pulse as a systemservice
> > > isn't recomended from it's developers.
> > > Console screenreaders need access to several kernel devices which doesn't
> > > work in user mode.
> > > E. g. /dev/ttyx, /dev/console, /dev/input/*, (/dev/snd/* only if pa is
> > > running).
> > > @ALL:
> > > Please work together with your disributors  to make pulse an optional
> > > and not an hard dependency of the desktop!
> > >
> > > We will loose texmode consoles if this stuff gets integrated in all
> > > distros.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Halim
> > >
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