Hi, thank you for your bug report. Unfortunately using transcriber with pulseaudio has always lead to issues. As far as I know, the issues are shared among all the software that use snack library.
Can you check if you have similar experience with wavesurfer? Best, Giulio On 17/11/2016 18:28, Frank Doepper wrote: > Package: transcriber > Version: 1.5.1.1-10 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > trying to use transcriber in stretch I experience that the sound output > stops after less than a second, although the cursor moves on. Stopping > (with tab) and restarting starts playing again, which stops then again > in the same way. Pulseaudio is installed, the transcriber sound source > does not dissapear. > > I would expect to hear the sound without interruption. I remember it > worked some time ago (wheezy?), before Pulseaudio. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, > 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages transcriber depends on: > ii libc6 2.24-5 > ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 > ii sox 14.4.1-5+b1 > ii tcl-snack 2.2.10.20090623-dfsg-6 > ii tcl-tclex 1.2a1-16 > ii tcl8.5 8.5.19-2 > ii tk 8.6.0+9 > ii tk8.5 8.5.19-1 > > transcriber recommends no packages. > > transcriber suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information >