speakup on the Raspberry Pi

Glenn glennervin at cableone.net
Thu Nov 1 20:50:10 EDT 2012


Well I just ordered it.
It will be a while though, because they are on back-order.
Previously, I ordered a GoogleTV box from Amazon which runs Android 4.0.
It was only 42 dollars.
I'm hoping I can get the Android screenreader going on it.
It is on back-order too.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Miller" <hobbgoblin79 at gmail.com>
To: "Glenn" <glennervin at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for 
Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: speakup on the Raspberry Pi


Glenn,

No, there isn't any soldering needed. All of that extra stuff is to
expand functionality. If all you are looking for is a tiny portable
computer, you'll need th Pi, a 5V, 1000 Mah charger, and a case.

Kelly, thank you for that link, I couldn't remember where to get one in
the states. It was eithe relement 14, RS components, or allied, but the
one that delivered in the U.S. was talking 3 to 6 month on shipping last
I checked. But then again, it seems that everyone was complaining about
them.

Last note for now, about the audio clicking, and ordering a Pi. Make
sure that you order the newer one form here on out. It's pretty much the
same, with a couple things added into the audio wiring that is supposed
to get rid of that clicking. It's the one built in the U.K. and has 512
MB of RAM versus the original with only 256MB.


Jason Miller


On 11/01/2012 08:27 PM, Glenn wrote:
> Kelly,
> Did you need to solder anything with your unit, or are the jacks built 
> into
> the circuit board?
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelly Prescott"<kprescott at coolip.net>
> To: "Glenn"<glennervin at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
> Linux."<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup on the Raspberry Pi
>
>
> Also, if you are in the US, mcmelectronics.com carries all the raspberry
> stuff.
> kp
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Glenn wrote:
>
>> Where does one go to get a Raspberry Pi?
>> I went to the raspberry.org/ site and all I could find is t-shirts.
>> Thanks.
>> Glenn
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kelly Prescott"<kprescott at coolip.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:19 PM
>> 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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