Re: Sound / voice issues

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, I just did the fresh installation using the RC3 image and once it 
was completed orca works just fine but no speech what so ever in the 
console.  Same issue that the alsa mixer is down when I run alsamixer.  
The reason I am writing again is to say that this issue should be fixed 
before the release as well as allowing both orca and espeakup to work 
side by side if this can be done as when Trixie worked normally before 
some update I was able to use either orca in mate or the espeakup 
console setup if at the mate login screen I pressed control and alt and 
f1.  After I successfully login then no console speech at all.  Now it 
is the same but no espeakup even at the mate login screen if I press 
control and alt and f1 but orca works just fine and I do have ssh access 
as I always install it.  What should I do to get this information to the 
proper group who can fix it?  Nick Gawronski

On 9/20/2025 12:04 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, This is almost the same issue I have where I get orca working in 
> the mate desktop after a fresh installation but no espeakup working in 
> the console.  I installed Trixie using the latest RC3 installation 
> image and get orca working fine once the login screen comes up and 
> after I login to mate.  If I switch to the console with control and 
> alt and f1 I get no speech what so ever and alsamixer as root says 
> that the mixer device is down.  What is the best way to have this 
> issue looked at as I am able to ssh into the system as root?  Nick 
> Gawronski
>
> On 9/20/2025 6:23 AM, Sebastian Humenda wrote:
> > Hi Sébastien
> >
> > Sébastien Hinderer schrieb am 20.09.2025, 11:12 +0200:
> >
> > > Running an up-to-date Debian Unstable with the new
> > > pipewire-system-services package installed, speech-dispatcher havinb
> > > been adapted to this so that only one system-wide instance is running.
> > […]
> > > Issue 1: users can't play sound.
> > >
> > > My understanding of the problem: Pipewire's socket,
> > > /run/pipewire/pipewire-0, belongs to root.nogroup and is neither
> > > readable nor writable by others. If I run the following command:
> > > chmod o+rw /run/pipewire/pipewire-0
> > I suppose this should be discussed directly with the pipewire 
> > maintainers, as
> > their systemd unit should set the group to `audio`, IMO.
> >
> > Because I lacked the time to resolve this properly, I currently use 
> > pipewire
> > as from the user session and configured speech-dispatcher to use 
> > pulse. With
> > pipewire-pulse, I can use the network transparency (or UNIX socket) 
> > to get audio from BRLTTY to my user pipewire. But that's more a hack 
> > which was quicker in my case.
> >
> > If you come up with a solution, please let me know. I plan to write 
> > something
> > on the Wiki page, if noone is faster :).
> >
> > Sebastian