speakup & orca in debian 7

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

I am also interested in a x86-64 version of eSpeak using pulseaudio for 
ArchLinux, in case someone can provide it or give general instructions 
on how to recompile it. This would probably solve the refferred problem 
with Orca, that I have too.

Thank you,
Cleverson

Cleverson

Em 01/11/2013 20:22, Mike Ray escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> Espeakup doesn't use either portaudio or pulseaudio. It just calls
> espeak, which in it's default configuration uses portaudio.
>
> It is possible to re-compile espeak to use pulseaudio. I have just done
> exactly that in efforts to get tts to work properly on Arch Linux on a
> Raspberry Pi.
>
> espeak using portaudio suffers appalling latency on the Pi and sometimes
> crashes the kernel, but using pulseaudio the latency issues are gone.
>
> Mike
>
> On 01/11/2013 20:37, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> If there is a way to use dmix to augment/replace pulse, I'd love to
>> know about it. The problem here is that espeakup uses alsa directly
>> instead of going through pulse. The only two ways I can think of to
>> fix this would be either to be able to run espeakup as a normal user,
>> which should force it to use pulse by virtue of opening alsa as a
>> regular user from what I understand, or to add pulse support to
>> espeakup. Actually, espeak uses portaudio if I remember right, so
>> maybe it's
>> as simple as portaudio supporting pulse.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:52:48AM +0900, Devon Stewart wrote:
>>> Isn't there a way to use alsa's dmix plugin to either replace, or at
>>> least augment, pulse? Also, this is assuming that Alsa is being used
>>> from the CLI.
>>>
>>> -Devon
>>>
>>> On 2013/11/02, at 4:41, "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I kill pulseaudio, do I still get speech with orca?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/01/13 14:23, Trevor Astrope wrote:
>>>>> Are you using software speech with both speakup and orca? I've had
>>>>> this
>>>>> problem with sound not working on the command line after running orca.
>>>>> In my case, gnome/orca started a pulseaudio process running as my
>>>>> user,
>>>>> even though I have pulseaudio and speechd-up configured to run as a
>>>>> system daemon.
>>>>>
>>>>> Killing the pulseaudio process running as my user gets sound back. You
>>>>> may need to restart speechd-up service as well, as I sometimes have a
>>>>> problem with this too, but I usually use hardware speech, so I don't
>>>>> remember the scenario where that is necessary to do as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, John G. Heim wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry if this is an FAQ but is there a solution to that problem with
>>>>>> running both speakup & orca in debian 7? Every time I've installed
>>>>>> debian 7 (aka wheezy), I can use speakup fine unless I log in at the
>>>>>> GUI and run orca. At that point, speakup stops talking and nothing
>>>>>> I've found short of rebooting gets it working agin. I understand this
>>>>>> has something to do with pulse audio run in the GUI.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> ---
>>>> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
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