Pipewire and Orca and audio

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I meant:
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf

Didier
Le 29/11/2021 à 13:13, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> Orca speaks through speech-dispatcher which manage the audio output.
> 
> but please note that as of today, there is no audio driver for pipewire in
> speech-dispatcher, help welcome to provide one:
> 
> https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/issues/447
> 
> meanwhile I suggest that you just edit /etc/speech-dispatcher-speechd.conf,
> setting either:
> AudioOutputMethod "libao"
> or
> AudioOutputMethod "pulse"
> or
> AudioOutputMethod "alsa"
> 
> Indeed the corresponding software should be installed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Didier
> 
> Le 29/11/2021 à 12:44, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
>> So I'm convinced now Pipewire is doing something funky on 
>> qemu/Virtualbox. I've spun up a quick and dirty Arch system running 
>> Mate via startx. Pulse works fine but the moment I redo the install 
>> with Pipewire, Orca keels over.
>>
>> So is there anything special I need to do in order to get Pipewire to 
>> play nice? I did sudo pacman -S pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber 
>> and am trying to go with a Pipewire and Wireplumber setup. All other 
>> audio, like YT vids, works fine, Orca just comes out as a garbled 
>> mess, so it looks at least to me like Pulse works better on my system.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this with Arch or other distros using Pipewire 
>> and fiure out a solution? There's not much online really about it, 
>> just articles on oh it's a bug, or oh replace Pulse with Pipewire
>>
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