[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1021483: Pipewire keeps waking up CPU even when not playing sound

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:11:24 +0100 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> Reporting this as "important" because as far as I can tell my battery
> life has gone down noticeably since switching from Pulseaudio to Pipewire.
> 
> Even when not playing any sound whatsoever, pipewire is waking up more
> than a hundred times per second, and using ~10ms of CPU out of every 1s.
> 
> This keeps the CPU in lower sleep states, and uses more battery.

Following up on this, I think this is caused by speech-dispatcher:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022120