speakup & orca in debian 7

[Brandon McGinty-Carroll]

Mike,
If you have the configure commands/steps handy, I'd love them, as would others, I'm sure.
If not, I'll go looking and post back what I find.

Brandon McGinty-Carroll

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 10:22:05PM +0000, Mike Ray wrote:
> 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
> >>>>>_______________________________________________
> >>>>>Speakup mailing list
> >>>>>Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>>>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >>>>_______________________________________________
> >>>>Speakup mailing list
> >>>>Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >>>-- 
> >>>---
> >>>John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu
> >>>_______________________________________________
> >>>Speakup mailing list
> >>>Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>Speakup mailing list
> >>Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> >>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael A. Ray
> Analyst/Programmer
> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
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