espeakup

[Mark Peveto]

I've got the talking arch iso here, but when I tried to boot it from 
usb, it never would speak.


On 05/26/2016 05:25 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Once pulseaudio is removed from a machine, running alsactl init should 
> initialize all sound cards to default values. The pulseaudio-alsa 
> package has to be deliberately installed on talkingarchlinux at least 
> I don't know what sonar or manjaro or f123 do.
>
> On Thu, 26 May 2016, Willem Venter wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 15:11:00
>> From: Willem Venter <dwillemv at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 
>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> Subject: Re: espeakup
>>
>> 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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Mark Peveto
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