Fwd: Talking Arch has no speech

[Tony Baechler]

Here, for the record, is the message I sent to the support address for 
Talking Arch.  I did solve the asound.state problem by reading the man page, 
but as you can see, I did offer to help.  In retrospect, I should have made 
my interest clearer.  What I didn't state outright is that I would be 
willing to test later CD releases to make sure the problems have been 
resolved.  I did offer to send my amixer output and my asound.state.  This 
is one case where a public mailing list to discuss these types of problems 
is really beneficial.  Even though there aren't many Debian developers 
working on accessibility, there is a public mailing list.  I intend to set 
up such a list for my live rescue CD.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Talking Arch has no speech
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 23:52:26 -0800
From: Tony Baechler <tony.baechler at gmail.com>
To: support at talkingarch.tk

Hello,

The 2015.03.01 CD seems to boot fine as I get garbage through my DECtalk
Express.  However, I get no speech through my sound card.  I have two
different installs of Debian here which both work fine, so it isn't an
unsupported card.  It's a Sound Blaster Audigy II.  I think the problem is
there is a switch for analog which needs to be turned off.  I can send you
my asound.state and/or amixer output if that helps.  I know nothing about
Arch.  Where does it store asound.state?  I can copy it over from Debian if
I know where to put it.  Also, it completely screwed up my serial
synthesizer to the point that it quit talking and my Windows screen reader
doesn't talk now.  I understand that serial detection is necessary for
Braille displays, but perhaps there is a better way to go about it.  Again,
Debian works fine here and doesn't have that problem.  If you could tell me
where asound.state is, that would be helpful.  I know the CD booted because
"halt" shut the system down as expected.  Thanks for your help and making
the CD available.  I'm interested in trying it if I can get speech working.