getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together

[Janina Sajka]

I routinely have two USB sound cards on my desktop, plus an old AV-710
based PCI card, plus an RME Hammerfall. And, yes, I use them all in
particular ways.

Decent USB sound cards, with sufficient quality for good sounding
speech,  can be had cheap.

Janina

Jude DaShiell writes:
> thinkpenguin.com sells sound cards that plug into usb slots and you plug
> speakers into the other end of the card.  On my system I have only one
> analog card.  Since I bought one of these usb cards I think I'll plug it
> in and see if my system suddenly finds a second analog card.
> 
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:17:36
> > From: Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net>
> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> > To: jheim at math.wisc.edu,
> >     Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> > Subject: Re: getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together
> >
> > I remember there used to be a way to use the pc speaker as a sound
> > card. I seem to recall it was a kernel driver, but it could have been
> > through alsa itself. A quick web search gives me a linux journal
> > article from 1997, but nothing besides that. So, short of checking the
> > config choices for a modern 4.x kernel, I don't know if this is still
> > an option. Even if it is still an option, I suspect the speech
> > wouldn't be very intelligible.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:49:10PM -0600, John G Heim wrote:
> > > Is there any way to get speakup to work through the PC speaker?
> >
> >
> >
> 
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa