Re: [Emacspeak] Pipewire v 1.0.2 broken

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxx>]

I did a small test this morning. I had a virtual image which had not yet
been updated to pipewire 1.0.2. Tried the software dectalk (just using
the say command) and it worked fine. I then applied the updates and it
ceased to work, so I am able to confirm software dectalk is impacted.

Good news is that a fix has already been published. Just waiting now for
package updates and everything should be good. Suspect only those on a
rolling release distro like Fedora or distros like Arch will be
impacted. Debian and Ubuntu have a much slower update cycle, so likely
that once they do update pipewire, it will be the version with the fix.

"T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "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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