[BRLTTY] Debian 13 - brltty + speech-dispatcher - no sound in text console

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hello,

I did manage to set this up but it was notobvious.

The question of what is running system-wide and what is running
user-wide indeed matters, and of course each componennt must know how
toconnect to the other (brltty to speech-dispatcher and
speech-dispatcher to pulse).

On recent Debian versions there are the wireplumber-system-services and
pipewire-system-services pakcages that install the tools system-wide.
One may have to enable the system-wide services and/or disable the
user-wide ones after having installed thepackages, I do not remember.

As far as I remember speech-dispatcher does come with a system-wide
service that can be enabled. Here again its user-wide counterpart needs
to be disabled, but beware that a user speech-dispatcher can stillbe
launched, because speech-dispatcher clients have an autostart feature
that make them spawn a server if they cannot find one.

Then to connect BRLTTY to that system speech-dispatcher, I have the two
following lines in /etc/brltty.conf:

speech-parameters
sd:Address=unix_socket:/var/run/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
speech-parameters sd:Autospawn=no

Because I do not want to have several instances of speech-dispatcher
running on my machine, I also added this to my start-up shell scripts:

export
SPEECHD_ADDRESS=unix_socket:/var/run/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock

Of course, make sure the socket exists and has enough perimissions for
users to connect.

I checked whether I have set-up something specific to get
speech-dispatcher to find pipewire but it does not  seem so.

I hope this helps but if this is not enugh do not hesitate to ask
questions, here or in private in french if you prefer.

Best wishes,

Seb.