speakup & orca in debian 7

Fri Nov 1 20:28:45 EDT 2013

I should also say the command to compile is:

make all

not just make

Mike

On 02/11/2013 00:22, Mike Ray wrote:
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> Edit the Makefile and find the section which reads like this:
>
> # 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio
> #AUDIO = runtime
> AUDIO = portaudio
> #AUDIO = portaudio0
> #AUDIO = portaudio2
> #AUDIO = pulseaudio
> #AUDIO = sada
>
> And simply change it to read thusly:
>
> # 'runtime' uses pulseaudio if it is running, else uses portaudio
> #AUDIO = runtime
> #AUDIO = portaudio
> #AUDIO = portaudio0
> #AUDIO = portaudio2
> AUDIO = pulseaudio
> #AUDIO = sada
>
> As you can see I just commented out portaudio and uncommented pulseaudio.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's all I did.  If you get errors about libraries 
> just install what you have missing.
>
> I am currently having trouble configuring pulseaudio to autospawn 
> properly on the Raspberry Pi.
>
> But I hope if I can get it to work switching from portaudio to 
> pulseaudio will solve all the latency issues and crashes we currently 
> have with Arch on the Pi.
>
> We have SpeakUp and Emacspeak running with eSpeak on Arch on the Pi 
> but have had to blacklist firmware and newer versions of sound drivers 
> because of a change to the driver which introduced some latency problems.
>
> The other way to make SpeakUp use pulse would be to ditch espeakup and 
> use speechd-up to connect it to speech-dispatcher but I haven't had 
> much success with speechd-up on Arch either on x86 or on the Pi.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 02/11/2013 00:01, Brandon McGinty-Carroll wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> I KEEP six honest serving-men, They taught me all I know. Their 
>>> names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
>>> -- Rudyard Kipling (paraphrased)
>>>
>>> Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi?
>>> Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/
>>>
>>>  From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi 
>>> hackers
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 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

I KEEP six honest serving-men, They taught me all I know. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
-- Rudyard Kipling (paraphrased)

Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi?
Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/

 From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers