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

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
Another solution for those who are switching between gnome and console 
frequently and don't need both generating sound output at the same time 
just came to my mind.
As a part of the pulseaudio there is an app called pasuspender.
So you can run espeakup while the pulseaudio is running like this:
pasuspender espeakup
pulseaudio will free the soundcard and as long as espeakup exits it will 
regain the control.

Greetings

Peter

On 09.09.2013 18:36, Kyle wrote:
> 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
> http://kyle.tk/
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/