Can pulseaudio be made to work with consoles and Orca at the same time?

I'm trying to get a basic Karmic system working with the two critical applications for the blind: Orca and speakup. Pulseaudio is being a huge PITA. Whether I use espeakup or speechd-up, pulseaudio is launched as another user as soon as the speakup module starts during boot. However, when the

speech-dispatcher and Festival

Hi, Has anyone gotten speech-dispatcher to be able to use festival? If so, how? Thanks Storm Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stormdragon2976 My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ For general Linux discussion: http://www.freelists.org/list/accessiblelinux What

Re: Can pulseaudio be made to work with consoles and Orca at the same time?

On 1/1/2010 7:07 AM, Bill Cox wrote: Any basically usable Linux system for the blind needs Orca and speakup working together. Pulseaudio, SFAIK, only allows one instance to use the sound card at a time. Pulseaudio also requires each user to have his own copy. Speakup runs before any user