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Asked: 2020-11-11 02:05:44 +0800 CST

How to disable speech-dispatcher in Ubuntu 20.04?

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I've got some problems with the recognition of my audio devices (see here for more detail). One suggested fix that floats around the internet is to disable the speech-dispatcher, by changing the following line in the configuration file /etc/default/speech-dispatcher

RUN=yes

to

RUN=no

However, the file /etc/default/speech-dispatcher does not exist on my Ubuntu 20.04. I tried creating it with the proposed line, but I didn't recognize any different behaviour, I was able to use the speech dispatcher with spd-say.

How do I check if adding the configuration file with RUN=no has any effect? And if it does not work this way in Ubuntu 20.04, how can I disable the autostart of speech-dispatcher?

Any help would be appreciated :)

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2 Answers

  1. Have you tried to uncomment the DisableAutoSpawn line in the file /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, thus the server will not start automatically on requests from the clients ?

    It looks like the speech-dispatcher service is not a system service started systematically like other SysV/systemd service, but launched on demand with your UID.

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  2. after many different fixes some that messed up audio after suspend i found that it was firefox calling it i disabled speech-dispatcher in " about:config " and no more problem the #1 answer will work but i think its better to stop it at the source

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