trying again, new talking arch and audio problems

Rob Hudson captinlogic at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 16:09:27 EDT 2013


I hear nothing. NO espeak. I still find it weird that sound works otherwise.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle" <kyle4jesus at gmail.com>
To: <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: trying again, new talking arch and audio problems


> When typing
> 
> espeak hello
> 
> Do you hear "hello" at all, or do you only get the errors? For some
> reason, Espeak will many times produce a whole host of strange-looking
> alsa errors, but it still talks. This especially causes problems in
> Debian Wheezy if you have installed a desktop environment, as Espeak
> speaks all the errors that are printed to the console as GDM begins
> running, so the user is forced to go into a text console to stop it
> prior to logging into GDM. However, on a Talking Arch system, the errors
> can generally be safely ignored, as long as Espeak is in fact talking.
> Most of the time, the espeakup system service will log the harmless
> errors rather than printing all that chatter to the console. If the
> harmless errors I refer to are in fact not harmless, e.g. Espeak simply
> doesn't talk, please write back, and I will dig a bit deeper into the
> problem if I can. Hope this helps.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> -- 
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