Re: [orca-list] new linux distro, with apology to Robert Cole

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

According to Alex Midence:
# Espeakup will keell over if you have Pulse Audio enabled unless you
know of
# a modification I haven't heard of.  If so, do tell, please.  I had to
cherry
# pick my Debian installation to make sure it didn't get installed when
I put
# gnome on it.  This way, I retained console speech.

Yes, this is the experience I have on most sound cards. I have found,
however, that usually, if you wait for speech or other sounds in GNOME
to stop before switching to the text console, Espeakup and other
applications that don't use pulseaudio begin working. I have also
noticed recently that applications that use Pulseaudio will cut off
non-pulse applications, but then as soon as the Pulse application stops,
the non-pulse application seems to begin working again. I noticed this
on a very old computer where I had Pulseaudio installed along with Sox,
and I was using Espeakup. If Espeakup was speaking while I started
playing a sound file with Sox, Sox complained about the sound card being
busy. However, if I stopped Espeakup long enough for the file to start
playing, Espeakup would just refuse to speak while the sound card was
busy and then start again once the file stopped playing. I do agree that
something better needs to be worked out, but it does seem better than it
used to be. For now though, it may be best to reserve Espeakup for the
command line spin and anything else that doesn't normally benefit from
the use of Pulseaudio.
~Kyle
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~Kyle
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