Solus and Broken Speech

[Linux for blind general discussion]

It's possible that Solus is using Pipewire by default. Normally, it is a 
drop-in replacement for Pulseaudio, jack and alsa front-end systems. but 
it seems to have trouble with speech-dispatcher sometimes when 
AudioOutputMethod is pulse. You can try installing Pulseaudio, which 
will move Pipewire out of the way. Otherwise, setting your 
speech-dispatcher output to alsa, either in your user account or in the 
system-wide configuration, sometimes solves the problem of choppiness. 
Note that if changing speech-dispatcher's AudioOutputMethod to alsa, 
there is no need to install Pulseaudio, as Pipewire-alsa should work 
fine. This of course assumes that Solus defaults to Pipewire. Check your 
package manager to determine whether pulseaudio is installed. If so, 
then you likely don't have pipewire, and your choppy speech is caused by 
another issue that most likely won't be resolved using the above methods.

~Kyle