speakup on the Raspberry Pi

Thu Nov 1 20:21:02 EDT 2012

I will post a link to them and some directions tomorrow.

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Jim Kutsch wrote:

> Kelly,
> I'd like to have the modules and any directions you care to share.  I have
> an early model PI.  Like much of New Jersey, right now, I have no power at
> home so won't get too it soon and my FTP server is offline.  I just wanted
> to let you know I'm interested.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kelly
> Prescott
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:20 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup on the Raspberry Pi
>
> Peter, I now have speakup working on the raspberry Pi.
> If anyone wants the modules speakup.ko and speakup_soft.ko I will post them
> on my web server so anyone can download them.
> They are for the 3.2.27+ kernel used currently on rasbian.
> The only thing I would like to know is what did you do with alsactl to stop
> or reduce the clicking?
> I cannot seem to get it to stop.
> Any information would be appreciated.
>
> -- Kelly Prescott
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Peter Lecky wrote:
>
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>> I had this problem (clicking on start and stop of playback) on py and
>> also on dreamplug. But i played with alsactl parameters and on
>> dreamplug it works now without clicks. I canot test it on py, i had it
>> only for a while.
>>
>> D?a 24. 10. 2012 22:31 Jason Miller  wrote / nap?sal(a):
>>> I've tried working with it, playing MP3s and WAV files and such, and
>>> I get a click in the console with it. It starts to click as if the
>>> audio driver is initializing, and then after the sounds as if is
>>> shutting itself down. I dunno, this is a common problem it seems with
>>> playing sound in the console.
>>>
>>> I think the new Pi board, the model b with 512MB of RAM instead of
>>> the older 256 has fixed some of these issues. It's supposed to have
>>> different things soldered into the board along the sound hardware
>>> paths, with different capacitors and such. Don't know about that for
>>> sure though.
>>>
>>> One of the issues I found building speakup modules into this thing is
>>> that the /modules/KERNEL/build folder hasn't existed on the older
>>> Raspbian images to be used, and until now, still has issues I think.
>>> Going to try starting over with the latest Raspbian images though and
>>> we'll see.
>>>
>>> Jason Miller
>>>
>>> Jason Miller
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2012 04:12 PM, Kelly Prescott wrote:
>>>> I have regular audio working on the Pi, so hopefully that will
>>>>
>>>> A little less work. I am currently using arch, and It don't think
>>>> the speakup modules are there, but I will download the debian distro
>>>> instead and see what it looks like. Kp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Speakup
>>>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Peter Lecky
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:20 PM To: Speakup is a screen
>>>> review system for Linux. Subject: Re: speakup on the Raspberry Pi
>>>>
>>> I played with espeak synthesiser and it worked perfectly. I didn't
>>> tryed to compile speakup modules but i think that there will not be
>>> problems with it. concerning audio output: I played with debian for
>>> py and it was necessary to change output to analog manually Peter D?a
>>> 24. 10. 2012 21:00 Kelly Prescott  wrote / nap?sal(a):
>>>>>> Has anyone successfully gotten speakup working on the Pi? I saw a
>>>>>> thread on this list which seemed to indicate someone had, but with
>>>>>> audio problems. Is there any tips or instructions out there? If
>>>>>> not, could people post what has sort of worked, I am wanting to
>>>>>> work on this as I am going to replace my Linux netbook I use with
>>>>>> a Raspberry Pi. Even if the quality is not the best, I am willing
>>>>>> to work on it just for the challenge. Any information would be
>>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>> Kp
>>>>>>
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