espeakup

[Willem Venter]

Hi Mark.
I'm not sure why this did not work for you. My info comes from this page.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio
I have successfully used the dmix method on archlinux and also debian.

This specific method relies on pulseaudio to still be installed.
On 5/26/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well crud, tried it, and no sound or speech.  *sigh*
> Thanks for the suggestion, though.
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
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>
>
> On Thu, 26 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>> Pulseaudio takes complete control of the audio device, so when other
>> devices try to use the soundcard through alsa things break.
>>
>> A work around I use is playing sound using dmix. This means a bit more
>> processing and possibly a little latency for programs using pulse, but
>> on the other hand it's better than broken sound.
>>
>> Remove package pulseaudio-alsa, which provides compatibility layer
>> between ALSA applications and PulseAudio. After this your ALSA apps
>> will use ALSA directly without being hooked by Pulse.
>> Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa.
>> Find and uncomment lines which load back-end drivers. Add device
>> parameters as follows. Then find and comment lines which load
>> autodetect modules.
>> load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
>> load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop
>> # load-module module-udev-detect
>> # load-module module-detect
>>
>> After rebooting pulseaudio won't grab the sound device, but instead
>> plays it through dmix.
>>
>> hth
>> Willem
>>
>> On 5/26/16, Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Here's the error I was talking about earlier.
>> >
>> > Back story:  I'm trying to get console speech.  Since i can't right now,
>> > I'm doing this from a terminal, which reads badly. Once I type sudo
>> > espeakup, it'll read the top of the console screen, and the login prompt
>> > asking for a username.  After that it gives an error which i'll post.  I
>> > know it's a pulseaudio problem.  Most suggest I get rid of pulseaudio,
>> > and if that's the only solution there is, I guess i'll have to, but that
>> > creates more problems when it comes to having the system rediscover new
>> > sound drivers.  Long explanation short, it jacks things up!
>> >
>> > Error follows.
>> >
>> > [southernprince at roxie ~]$ sudo espeakup
>> > [sudo] password for southernprince:
>> > [southernprince at roxie ~]$ Assertion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273,
>> > function pa_simple_write(). Aborting.
>> >
>> > It should be noted here that the error does not appear until I start to
>> > type.  It reads the login prompt, and once i hit the s for
>> > southernprinc, my username, the error appears.  If I could figure out
>> > how, I might turn keyecho off, which I wanna do anyway, but I don't know
>> > if that'd help anything.
>> >
>> > There ya have it folks.
>> >
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