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. > 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 law of unintended > consequences rules. > > These systems do not handle multiple sound streams at all > so if something has control of the sound device, espeak stops > talking and if espeak is talking, playing and sometimes recording > with that device fails. > Could be that the sound card does not support that. > I did try pulseaudio more than once as it is supposed to > give the effect of handling multiple streams but either I didn't > install it correctly or there was some other issue because I > never got it to work right. > What did you do and where were you stuck? -- John Doe
