Samuel asks "But doesn't libao conflict with a pipewire running in the desktop?" On this system the line in speechd.conf audioOutputMethod "libao" is not commented out, so it appears to work. On another system I have, when I tried that, I had problems. I think it didn't talk, so I commented the line out. On this system I seem to get slightly better responsiveness when switching to the console with Espeak if "libao" is used. If "libao" is not used there is sometimes a delay when I login on the Espeak console before it starts talking. Maybe the sound cards being different has something to do with it, I'm not sure. On 3/3/25 15:22, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Chevelle, le lun. 03 mars 2025 15:20:14 -0500, a ecrit:Debian has a long term plan to get rid of pulseaudio and the pipewire process is running to handle what pulse did previously. Then you can do what the Debian accessibility FAQ says and configure the 'libao' in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf.But doesn't libao conflict with a pipewire running in the desktop? Samuel