Bug#1126952: espeakup: Espeakup does not speak if pipewire-alsa is installed

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi

Adam Myrow wrote am 04.02.2026,  8:49 -0600:
  * What led up to the situation?
>I installed the pipewire-audio package, which pulls in pipewire-alsa
>as a dependency.
[…]
>I found that in order for espeakup to work, I had to remove pipewire-audio
>as well as pipewire-alsa.

Pipewire runs as user service and grabs exclusive access to the audio device.
Espeakup hence cannot access the soundcard anymore. Just for reference,
similar issues occurred with Pulseaudio, AFAIK.

Please try the package pipewire-system-services which is meant to help in this
situation. A system-wide pipewire instance is shared between the default user
account and espeakup. I'm not an espeakup user myself, but you might need to
configure it to use pipewire, still.
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