Raspberry question

[Gregory Nowak]

Sounds like you're getting bit by pulseaudio. You have three options:

1. Hook up a USB sound card, and set espeakup to use that instead.

2. Replace espeakup with speechd-up. Note that speechd-up hasn't been
   developed in something like the last 10 years, and doesn't let you
   control as many things as espeakup does.

3. Dump pulseaudio, and setup speech-dispatcher to output using libao
   in speechd.conf. I think the raspbian desktop has a core dependency
   on pulseaudio. If I'm right, then this may not be an option.

Greg


On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 05:04:31PM -0500, kperry at blinksoft.com wrote:
>  
> 
> Well, it has been a long time since I have been on this list.   Over the
> years I have been using Orca, but I have been missing speakup.  I have used
> my raspberry PI's up to this time on ssh.  I was hoping that the new release
> in December of the rasbion which has access built in would just work out of
> the box.   I am able to get Orca going and Emacspeak, and even espeak at the
> command line.  
> 
>  
> 
> The problem is speakup seems to be working but does not work.    When I am
> at the tty terminal using the keyboard and with Xwin shut down.   I can make
> espeak say thins but I am not able to get speakup to work.  When I do PS I
> can see that both speak up and espeakup -V are running.  I have tried doing
> 
>  
> 
> Sudo Systemctl enable espeakup.service
> 
> Sudo Systemctl start espeakup.service
> 
>  
> 
> I have even tried without the .service on the previous lines.  So far
> nothing I have tried has got speakup talking. 
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know how to get speakup to talk on the new Rasbion build?  I
> would much rather be using speakup than Ora or emacspeak.
> 
>  
> 
> I have asked this on the Raspberry PI list already and no one has answered.
> 
> Ken
> 
>  
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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