Package: saytime
Version: 1.0-26
Severity: wishlist

I couldn't figure out how to make saytime work with my environment,
where the sound device is often take over by pulseaudio.

This is normally not a problem because most stuff talks to pulseaudio
nowadays... But somehow saytime (or sox?) doesn't:

I have tried various things like:

saytime -t pulseaudio # sox fails
saytime -t pulse # sox says "missing filename"
padsp saytime # sox says device busy

Is there a way to make this work?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages saytime depends on:
ii  libc6            2.19-18+deb8u6
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa  14.4.1-5
ii  oss-compat       6
ii  sox              14.4.1-5

saytime recommends no packages.

saytime suggests no packages.

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