Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

Yes, I can press control+alt+f1 and login although there is sometimes a 
slight delay before it starts talking.  I had Trixie running in a 
virtual machine, and Pulse Audio didn't seem to be installed by default, 
so maybe that is good news.  I'm not sure if speech works when switching 
consoles in Trixie or not.



On 6/12/25 11:34, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I am using trixie from a fresh installation and think that this 
> uses pipewire by default is this correct?  I do have the software that 
> does emulate pulse so that is enabled but not sure how to make the 
> setup you have work on my system.  Are you saying that in the mate 
> desktop you can press control and alt and f1 and get speech in the 
> console using speakup then when you want to go back to the desktop you 
> can press control and alt and f7 and orca speaks and you can go back 
> and forth with no issues as this is what I want to be able to do?  
> Nick Gawronski
>
> On 6/12/2025 8:23 AM, Chevelle wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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