Re: Sound / voice issues

Sebastian Humenda <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:23:20 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility
Message-ID	<aM6OqAAvBbUusKLY@kraftkrust>

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

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