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[Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>]

Hi Peter,

the issue may be related to an old pipewire issue associated with alsa
apps. I'm running fedora with outloud and there were some issues quite a
while back with pipewire. Fedora wsas an early adopter of pipewire, so
I'm wondering if ubuntu might just be a little behind.

Sadly, I don't recall the full details, but it should be in the
emacspeak archives. From memory, the fix was to build outloud against
pulse audio rather than alsa, which it will do automatically if you have
the pulseaudio devel package installed.

Suggest you try installing the pulseaudio devel package and then rebuild
the tcl outloud shared lib and see if that helps.

Good news is that outloud will work fine with pipewire as that is what
I've been running for the lasxt couple of years.

HTH

Tim

"peter.julien.rayner" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> 
writes:

> I'm running emacspeak commit 7482f8e27 on ubuntu 24.04 and using
> outloud with an ancient ibmts. Yesterday I did a periodic package
> update which included some pipewire and alsa packages. Since then
> emacspeak speech has been crashing every few minutes and producing
> garbage sounds for a few seconds up to a minute, then things will
> return until it happens again. Changing default.clock.quantum in the
> pipewire.conf has helped a bit but it's still happening. If I can
> isolate a trigger it would be pressing a key in the middle of an
> utterance. Orca (i.e speech-dispatcher) seems unaffected.
> System logs are showing lots of:
>  Dec 12 16:37:46 bastet pipewire[2510]: spa.alsa: hw:sofhdadspp: (11 
> suppressed) snd_pcm_avail after recover: Broken pipe
> This is on a LeNovo thinkpad.
> Anyone seen anything similar?
> regards
> Peter