Re: [Emacspeak] Pipewire v 1.0.2 broken

["T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tim Cross" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:

Thanks for the heads-up Tim! Surprized that dtk-soft breaks  because
from what I remembering seeing when I built it, it (the dectalk synth)
links against pulseaudio.

> Just a FYI for anyone running pipewire as part of their sound
> setup. Version 1.0.2 was just released and unfortunately, it has broken
> Alsa support. This has already been reported to the pipewire devs and a
> fix has already been released. However, it will take a few days before
> distros (like Fedora) push out the fix.
>
> Note that this doesn't affect apps using pulse audio, only those
> directly using alsa. This means that while outloud and dtk-soft are not
> working, espeak is. So if you get caught out, you can switch to espeak
> as your speech server until the update is pushed to your distro.
>
> The error you get for this issue when you try to run an also app is an
> error about an unsupported operation. For example, when I try to run
> ./outloud I get
>
> ╰─➤  ./outloud                                                                                                           127 ↵
> Using SoX
> Found 4 languages.
> Playback open error: Operation not supported
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