Re: [orca-list] slightly off topic: orca, espeakup and ubuntu 19.10

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

If gentoo has the apulse package you might actually get firefox to use
alsa by running apulse firefox.

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, John Covici wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:18:34
> From: John Covici <covici ccs covici com>
> To: Florian Beijers <florianbeijers gmail com>
> Cc: orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] slightly off topic: orca, espeakup and ubuntu 19.10
>
> I prefer speechd-up because it makes speakup work with
> speech-dispatcher.  I don't like pulse audio, I have it because
> firefox requires it, but I use alsa for everything else, including
> that I changed the speech dispatcher output to alsa, and things seem
> to work on my gentoo system quite nicely.
>
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:45:50 -0500,
> Florian Beijers via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been away from desktop Linux for a long time and have a few
> > questions now I am diving back in. namely:
> >
> > - When I was last involved with Ubuntu, it was during the Gnome 3
> > transition that made a lot of people ...not all that happy. I have
> > been keeping my ear to the ground to some degree and heard that Ubuntu
> > Mate is a good accessible option currently, so that is what i
> > installed on a VM. Was that a good choice?
> >
> > - Around the same time, people really didn't like PulseAudio all that
> > much. Do they still not like PulseAudio all that much? :)
> > - I have been trying to get Speakup in the console to work, but am
> > running into a bit of an issue. The console speaks to me while logging
> > in, but then falls silent. Do i need to give some process extra
> > permissions?
> > - I am using Espeakup, I also hear a lot about speechd-up, is that the
> > preferred choice these days? Any docs on how to set this up properly?
> > :)
> >
> > That's all I have for now :-) Thanks to anyone who can give me some direction :)
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