espeakup

[Jude DaShiell]

You have to wait for that distro to start talking and I do mean wait a 
few minutes after you hit enter after booting the distro.  It is probing 
all of your sound cards, and even if you have usb speakers attached, 
talkingarch will find them and will offer you the opportunity to use 
them.  Hope this helps.

On Fri, 27 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:

> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 03:40:50
> From: Mark Peveto <southernprince73 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
> 
> 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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