pulseaudio and espeakup

[Alex ARNAUD]

Le 30/12/2017 à 01:11, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> - espeakup and lightdm/gdm could be given audio group access, but then
> there are two competing pulseaudio servers, and only the first one seems
> to actually manage to emit sound.

Only PulseAudio could emits sound at the same time. A possible solution 
could be to enable to emit sound from TCP or Unix socket as described 
here: http://billauer.co.il/blog/2014/01/pa-multiple-users/

What do you think about this solution?
It seems it's not only a accessibility issue because a computer could be 
used by multiple users and in some situations sighted users encounter 
this problem also.

> In the end, I have no idea how this situation is supposed to work, and
> for now I have just made the espeakup d-i script *purge* pulseaudio,
> to get things working. Of course I can see various documentations
> saying one could use a system-mode daemon, but upstream doesn't want
> that. Normally, espeakup could have its own pulseaudio server, playing
> well along pulseaudio servers of other users, but I failed to get
> something working.

I'm not sure removing PulseAudio is a good idea. As I understand New 
Firefox releases require PulseAudio to emit sound.

> We really need to fix this (and I'm really depressed that it seems
> nobody took the time to manage to work out a solution).

I agree with you on this particular point but you couldn't miss the 
contribution of Paul and Jeremy on accessibility team on packaging that 
could allow you to focus on more complicated tasks you seems to be aware of.

Best regards.--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"