Talking Linux for Raspberry Pi

[Mike Ray]

I solved the spluttering tts with espeak and speakup on the Pi by
writing an OpenMAX IL library that bypasses the broken ALSA driver:

git clone https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git

See the raspberry-pi directory.

It uses the OpenMAX IL client libraries found in /opt/vc to render audio
on the GPU, thus bypassing ALSA totally.

Mike


On 27/08/2015 19:37, Kyle wrote:
> I'm planning to try to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 2 in the near
> future. I will be experimenting with Arch and OpenElec mostly. I got
> OpenElec running on my Pi model B, and I was even able to get it
> talking. I did have to do some unconventional things with it though, as
> OpenElec appears to create its system partition on first boot. So I had
> to boot up the Pi, wait about 10 minutes to be sure it did everything
> it was supposed to do, pull the plug and then unzip the Kodi screen
> reader into the .kodi/addons folder on the newly created system
> partition. As for Arch, I have been able to make it run with MATE on
> the old beast, but it's really slow, as this is the older single-core
> 700MHz. I haven't tried getting Speakup working yet, but my goal is to
> get the Pi 2 and work with that more extensively instead of continuing
> to mess with the model B.
> Sent from my pot of coffee
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-- 
Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK

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