Re: [orca-list] Built in Controls for Espeak Pretty Please with Sugar, cheeries, whatever it takes on top :)

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

On 8/29/14, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> The big issue with console speech is audio and permissions. Whether you are
> using Pulse, which by the way uses ALSA, or ALSA directly, there is still
> the problem of accessing the sound card. Things generally work when you are
> already logged into a console session. If everything is running and
> configured to work in the user session, all is well, however you cannot
> review a terminal where you are logged in, because the software in your user
> session doesn't have permission to talk to the audio hardware.

Ah, thanks for explaining that. I wasn't quite clear before what the
problem was with console speech before, but now I get it. That is a
nasty problem, and doesn't sound like it is an easy one to resolve.

> In Vinux 4, we managed to work up a solution, which whilst still a little
> buggy, does work. This solution needs to be rewritten to work with
> Systemd/Logind, and the Systemd part of the solution needs to be sent
> upstream. We then need to adapt espeak, and speechd-up to work properly, and
> configure the device node for speakup to be controllable by Systemd to allow
> user sessions to talk to it.

Ouch! That definitely does not sound like fun. I'm not really
qualified to do something like that at this point, but I do not envy
the person or people who gets stuck with that task.