Re: [orca-list] Orca and gnome 3: no speech; could Pulseaudio be the reason?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
After my looking at pulseaudio, I really feel like I would be better 
without it. It just seems to be a lot of work for no additional features 
of interest to me. The suggestion put forward by Halim is giving the 
most promising results, however I still need to work out one issue I am 
still facing where the GDM user is not giving any speech output.

If one only wanted speech from orca/gnome applications, then pulseaudio 
doesn't need any significant work and just make sure everything is set 
to use pulseaudio. However if you want to introduce software speech from 
speakup it seems to become so complicated that it just isn't worth it.

Can anyone give instructions on how to use gnome 3 without pulseaudio?

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Steve, congratulations on the new job.  Is it computer work?
>
> More to the point, can you point me to instructions on how to get Orca and
> Pulse to work at all?  I may very likely agree with you that it's not worth
> the trouble, but would like to know how to give it a try.  Thanks!
>
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> Behalf Of Steve Holmes
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 9:15 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and gnome 3: no speech; could Pulseaudio be
> the reason?
>
> I'm another arch user and I've been out of the loop for a few weeks because
> I started up a new job and had to move to a new apartment to commute from
> out of state.  Anyway, I haven't had much time to play much with this so
> far.  My pulse experiences were inconsistent and poor enough for me to
> pretty much abandon it on my desktop and while I'm on the road here, I am
> using my laptop exclusively and have made no attempts to run pulse on this
> machine.  I only have one sound card in this laptop and am quite afraid of
> losing speech altogether if I dive too deeply into pulse.
>
> Anyway, I could set up an AUR package for orca-3.0 if that would help some
> folks out.  I myself would be interested in gnome3 developments but right
> now, I don't know all the necessary steps to get this going.  I saw an arch
> wiki reference for gnome3; if one goes that route, is it possible to drop
> back to normal production gnome without having to pull many teeth?
>
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 11:40:03AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> > According to Michael Whapples:
> > # Then I had a trouble where I had previously been adding users to the
> > # audio group but pulseaudio doesn't like this. Try removing users
> > from # the audio group, worked for me.
> >
> > Interesting. I am in the audio group on my Arch system and it's
> > working fine. As a matter of fact, it didn't work properly until I
> > added myself to audio. My speechd user is also in the audio group,
> > although I'm not sure why, since I run speech-dispatcher in user mode.
> > Perhaps the install script did that.
> > ~Kyle
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