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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Believe it or not, Pulse is a non issue for me in Ubuntu since 13.10.  Now, using 14.04, I find I can still 
have console speech.  I enable the module for speakup in the gnome terminal and launch espeakup, mosy on over 
to tty1, login and voi la!  Speakup starts talking and emacspeak works in the console.  If other distros 
could do whatever magical thing Ubuntu did with their pulse configuration, this issue could be laid to rest 
with everyone happy.  I don't dare so much as look at the config files in my Ubuntu box lest I wake the 
proverbial baby and break something.  Truth is, though, that they've finally got it working like a charm on 
that distro.  I've used recently Fedora and Debian and can't say the same for either one.  

Alex M

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 12:07 AM
To: orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Built in Controls for Espeak Pretty Please with Sugar, cheeries, whatever it takes 
on top :)

Hi,

There is the catch 22 I see with VI Linux users. Most mainstream Linux users, those that use the GUI, have 
moved on to using the GUI and therefore pulse is a non-issue for them. Even I confess since I rarely use 
console speech this conflict between alsa and pulse is something of a non-issue for me personally. However, 
as many VI users still rely on console speech via Speakup etc they also depend on alsa and don't want to 
fight with pulse. The only solution I can see is perhaps writing a new screen reader for the console that 
uses pulse by default which would make alsa verses pulse a non-issue for VI users. Any thoughts?



On 8/27/14, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
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> hi
> Totally agree. I've switched to usinb libao, because of the alsa bugs 
> no one seems to want to fix. And please don't start in with the use 
> pulse audio option? Pulse is not an option for me, until and unless it 
> supports console speech out of the box
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