hi all Storm and chrys87 have come up with a very simple way to fix pulse audio's tendency to mess around with console speech. To fix, all you need to do is install my attached pulse audio config file, default.pa into your user config folder, which is at ~/.config/pulse. Do not add this to the system wide pulse folder or pulse audio will break. I'm not sure why but it does. What this file does is configure pulse audio to listen on a socket, /tmp/pulse.soc. Once this file is in place, restart pulse if you havent made any modifications to the system wide pulse config file, and speakup should work in the console with no problems, along with sound in the gui. The only minor hickup is that I havne't been able to get speakup to read the login prompt with this, but other than that everything works fine. I'm hoping to get a couple of people hear to test it, and if it works well, I'll submit this to the pulse audio guys for inclusion into pulse itself. They'll know how to include it without breaking pulse audio itself. Config file attached. Thanks Kendell Clark
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