espeak does not work when flash is playing.

[Ray Parrish]

Kyle wrote:
> Espeak by default will not play while other applications are playing
> because it uses OSS to send data to the sound device. Try running espeak
> through padsp in your script like this:
>
> padsp espeak "$TEXT"
>
> Where "$TEXT" is the quoted text to be spoken. This runs espeak through
> pulseaudio, and should solve your problem.
>
> Kyle
>   
You hit the nail right on the head Kyle! I converted a few of my 
reminders to using the padsp command, and now espeak talks while I'm 
watching tv on Hulu, or Archive.org.

Thank you very much!

Later, Ray Parrish


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