Re: Speechd-up

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Aaron Chantrill, le ven. 16 janv. 2026 12:51:31 -0500, a ecrit:
> Does anyone know how to set speechd-up up with pipewire and systemd?

It's speech-dispatcher that you'd want to make use pipewire. speechd-up
itself doesn't deal at all with the audio. It just takes text from
speakup and gives it to speech-dispatcher.

> it's calling speech-dispatcher and that is set up to run as a user
> service.

You can set it up to run as a system service.

Aaron Chantrill, le ven. 16 janv. 2026 13:45:07 -0500, a ecrit:
> One more thing. Does speakup still write to /dev/softsynth when using the
> speakup_soft module,

It rather reads from it. Actually it should rather read /dev/softsynthu,
I have added:

https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up/issues/9

> or is it using /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth

speakup/synth just contains the name of the current speakup driver.

> or synth_direct

synth_direct is the converse, it's for making e.g. emacspeak emit its
synth through the speakup-supported hardware synths.

> Is there a way for me to read what speakup is writing to make sure it
> is working correctly?

speechd-up has a log file, as well as speech-dispatcher.

Samuel