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
>>
>>> [email protected] 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
>>
>