speakup & orca in debian 7

[Mike Ray]

What I did on Arch on the Pi was just install the normal espeak package 
and then compile and install my compiled version which just overwrites 
what's there already.  So espeakup doesn't get upset.

I've been trying to get SpeakUp and some other kinds of accessibility 
tools to run on the Pi for the whole of this year.

We did have SpeakUp and Emacspeak running on Arch but we had to 
blacklist the kernel, the firmware and alsa-utils because sound-driver 
and firmware changes broke espeak and introduced some nasty stuttering 
which I've now discovered is latency.

Recompiling espeak for pulse stops those stutters but I'm now currently 
struggling to get pulse correctly configured and to get consist audio 
from both command-line espeak and Emacspeak.

It's right to say these bloody sound systems are a hell of a fiddle to 
get working correctly but pulse seems particularly difficult.  The usual 
problem of the documentation not keeping up with the software is true 
with pulse as well as the documentation not being especially exhaustive 
to begin with.

Luckily the Arch wiki is pretty good.

I guess sound is one area where you're plate-spinning in a way because 
it has to work with every installed package that demands sound.

I WILL get to the point where I have SpeakUp and Emacspeak running on 
the newest Arch kernel on the Pi.  And then I will go back to Raspbian 
and try that.  I switched to Arch because Raspbian just crashed all the 
time.

Mike

On 02/11/2013 03:35, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 09:17:03PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
>> 1. I couldn't figure out how to get the debian espeakup package to
>> work with my custom compiled version of speakup. You can't install
>> espeakup w/o the espeak package.
> Why not use apt-build to build your custom espeak as a debian package?
> You should then be able to install your custom espeak package, and
> install espeakup.
>
> Greg
>
>


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