I recently had a problem with no audio at all from a Debian system where I could get absolutely no audio through an SSH session. That is, I expected sound files to play and spd-say to come out of the device, not over SSH. If I typed it in on the actual computer, the audio worked. So I removed pulseaudio and all is good now. So, it may need to become common practice to remove pulseaudio. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chevelle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2025 8:23 AM Subject: 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 >> >
