Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop
I recently had a problem with no audio at all from a Debian system where I
could get absolutely no audio through an SSH session.
That is, I expected sound files to play and spd-say to come out of the
device, not over SSH.
If I typed it in on the actual computer, the audio worked.
So I removed pulseaudio and all is good now.
So, it may need to become common practice to remove pulseaudio.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chevelle" <cstrobel@purelymail.com>
To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2025 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can
switch between the console and the desktop
On Debian Bookworm, I can get this to work by getting rid of pulseaudio.
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf has this line
AudioOutputMethod pulse
Pipewire is running and has a process called 'pipewire-pulse'.
ps -ef|grep pulse
You should find '/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse' running, it emulates what
Pulse audio did.
Make sure you have a way to get into your system if speech dies, such as
Braille or SSH.
You can do
apt purge pulseaudio
Not knowing anything about your configuration, I can't say what might
happen, so be careful.
On 6/11/25 11:54, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I am still trying to get this to work and am not sure who to file
> the proper bugs to about this so is there a place that this can be
> done as I kind of see this as a major issue that needs to be looked
> into as I am sure that it is possible? Nick Gawronski
>
> On 3/6/2025 12:39 PM, Dietmar Segbert wrote:
>> Hello Didier,
>>
>> thanks for your answer. I will test that.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Dietmar
>>
>>> didier@slint.fr schrieb am 06.03.25:
>>> Hello,
>>> On 04/03/2025 21:05, Dietmar Segbert wrote:
>>>> I don not know, where i can set alsa card 0 as default soundcard in
>>>> alsa/
>>>> pipewire.
>>> I never used pipewire but I used to have in /etc/asound.conf this
>>> content
>>> defaults.pcm.card 0
>>> defaults.ctl.card 0
>>> But it happened that after a kernel upgrade the default card changed.
>>> What most users actually want is to use the PCH output, not an HDMI
>>> one,
>>> regardless of the card number. To get there I just include in a
>>> file named
>>> /etc/speechd-up.conf this line:
>>> ALSA_CARD=PCH
>>> Then this fie is sourced by the script that starts speechd-up
>>> (attached).
>>> I do something similar for espeakup (script also attached)
>>> I assume that something similar could be done with systemd. "I
>>> assume" as I
>>> never configured systemd.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Didier
>>
>
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