Re: [orca-list] No sound with GUI under Debian stable (MATE) under VBox 5.27+

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

No, no, no. There's a much simpler solution to this conundrum.

Get a USB sound card--or even two. Use one for Speakup, use another for
Orca and Speech-Dispatcher, and if you get a third one, let it play
stuff you actually want to listen to apart from your chattering screen
readers.

I've taken this to another level myself by putting a Mackie 1202 audio
mixer on my desk. While that's very handy, you don't need to go that far
to make multiple devices work.

Of course, that's a bit cumbersome on a laptop, so you have to
investigate ways to make espeakup and speech-dispatcher behave. It's
possible, not always easy.

Janina

Keith Barrett writes:
> On 28/02/18 09:35, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > Le 27/02/2018 à 23:27, James a écrit :
> > > I have  tried to ensure that Orca is running and according to the
> > > Debian manual,  if installed with Speakup, Orca should start when
> > > the GUI loads. Are there different sound drivers for the CLI and
> > > GUI?
> >
> > No, it's a conflict between speakup and Orca. You should disable speakup
> > at startup to avoid this issue.
> Well, that will not really help if you want to use speakup and orca.
> Another option is to remove pulseaudio but be aware that may cause problems
> in later versions of firefox so you need to decide which is most important
> to you.
>
>
>
> > You should run this command as root:
> > systemctl disable espeakup
> >
> > And reboot your computer, tell me if it fix your issue.
> >
> > Best regards.
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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