Solus and Broken Speech

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Oddly enough I've not noticed the choppiness with the Budgie desktop, so 
I'm wondering if it's something Mate spin specific with how Solus does 
things though?

On 7/31/21 3:25 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> I'm now running Solus and find that both pulseaudio and pipewire are actual
> executable files.  Furthermore, pipewire is not running, as indicated by
> typing:
>
> ps aux |grep pipewire
>
> Only return is my command.
>
> When I do the same thing, but with pulseaudio, I get several lines.  I'm
> going to assume this means that pulseaudio is running.  What, next, to try,
> to smoothe this speech out?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Dave  H.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 1:56 AM Linux for blind general discussion <
> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. If Pipewire is installed, pulseaudio would be a symlink. Try
>> running file like so:
>>
>> file /usr/bin/pulseaucio
>>
>> This should tell you exactly what you're dealing with. It does appear
>> you will want to change your AudioOutputMethod to "alsa" in
>> /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. That will be the easiest way to
>> solve the choppy speech problem I think.
>>
>> ~Kyle
>>
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