Re: An espeak question

2019-04-02 Thread Didier Spaier
All I know is that here I can have fenrir, espeakup and orca running, a youtube video playing and hear all these at the same time. Well, TBH, Orca speaks only in graphical mode (Alt+F7) and the console screen readers in console mode (Ctrl+Alt+F2). But I hear the video in both modes. PulseAudio is

Re: Linux 9 stretch What to do about reviving speakup?

2019-04-02 Thread Didier Spaier
On 02/04/2019 06:50, Samuel Thibault wrote: > It's not when it is loaded, but when switching from one to the other. > Unloading the module indeed avoids the issue, but that's still a manual > thing. > > The bug is to be fixed in linux 5.0.6, 4.20.18, 4.19.33. Thanks for the information Samuel. S

Re: An espeak question

2019-04-02 Thread Gregory Nowak
You are using espeak with espeakup, right? If yes, then my suggestion is to purge pulseaudio, and configure alsa's dmix plugin if your audio hardware can't deal with multiple streams natively. Greg On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 08:06:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The older PC's I have for Linu

Re: An espeak question

2019-04-02 Thread john doe
On 4/2/2019 3:06 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > The older PC's I have for Linux are great and now speakup works > as it should so I have a new question. > Not according to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2019/04/msg00018.html In the follow-up e-mails Samuel does answer you. >

An espeak question

2019-04-02 Thread Martin McCormick
The older PC's I have for Linux are great and now speakup works as it should so I have a new question. When the espeak engine is not processing text to speech, is the sound device, usually card 0, really free to use for normal sound activities? It seems to be but sometimes, the la