Re: console speech

John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 31 May 2016 08:28:08 -0500

Even though speakup doesn't support USB synths, you can identify 
hardware synths via the USB subsystem and load the appropriate speakup 
serial port driver. I have a udev rules file that could identify 2 or 3 
different hardware synths and worked with debian squeeze. I don't think 
I ever tried it under wheezy. I've switched to ubuntu and have not tried 
it at all with systemd udev. I had an idea of trying to get as many 
people as possible to send me USB identity strings so I could add more 
and more rules.

On 05/30/2016 01:16 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
No, talkingarchlinux does not have the code in its script to search 
for or identify hardware speech synthesizers, at least not yet.  Some 
of those hardware speech synthesizer manufacturers won't make 
identification protocols available either.

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote:

Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:48:11
From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: console speech

Does that concept work with hardware speech as well?
Just curious,

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

Not in the case of talkingarchlinux. That distro has a script for 
automatic sound card discovery and it's able to install a system in 
a way where the default will be usb speakers when the installation 
is complete.
Kalilinux which uses pulseaudio cannot find usb speakers and match 
what talkingarchlinux can do now.  The pulseaudio system is a 
control system not anything that works on low level stuff.  A couple 
sighted people who built me a new computer and installed kalilinux 
on it for me and myself later verified all of this.

On Sun, 29 May 2016, Alonzo Cuellar wrote:

 Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 13:53:28
 From: Alonzo Cuellar <mariachiac@xxxxxxxxx>
 Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
 To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: console speech

 hello,

 My thoughts. Pulse Audio has more functionality then Alsa. Alsa is 
great
 for a low level system meaning only command line access. If you run a
 graphical environment you will not be able to get discovery of sound
 automatically unless of course you write some sort of scripts for 
Alsa.

 I happen to think though that when Pulse Audio was beginning to be 
upon
 the Linux community most of us who used Espeakup relied on Alsa 
heaviely.
 Now its a bit of a problem for a user who wants the desktop 
experience.

 Thats just what I see.

 alonzo

 On 05/26/2016 09:32 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>  Once pulseaudio is purged, try powering off the system then 
start the > system up again and find out what happens.  If 
everything works, the > system will reconfigure to account for the 
absence of pulseaudio and you > should have speech back again once 
that happens.
> >  On Thu, 26 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:
> > >  Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 03:32:44
> >  From: Mark Peveto <southernprince73@xxxxxxxxx>
> >  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion 
<blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >  To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >  Subject: Re: console speech
> > > >  Tried, but it totally jacked up my sound after that.  I'm 
having to > >  reinstall again.
> > > >  On 05/25/2016 01:58 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > >  Mark has to get rid of pulseaudio and all of its dependencies.
> > > > > >  On Wed, 25 May 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > > > > > >  Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:10:06
> > > >  From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion > > > > 
<blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >  To: Linux for blind general discussion 
<blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >  Subject: Re: console speech
> > > > > > > >  Get rid of pulseaudio.
> > > >  You should be able to google how to do that on your distro.
> > > >  HTH, Willem
> > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 25 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:
> > > > > > > > >  I'm at my witt's end!  I'm working with f123, a 
manjaro based > > > > >  distro, and have had really good luck, 
until it comes to console > > > > >  speech using espeakup.
> > > > >  It'll speak for about 30 seconds, then I get a 
pulseaudio error > > > > >  that looks like this.
> > > > >  assirtion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273, function > > 
> > > pa_simple_write(). Aborting.
> > > > >  It's shot me down on every manjaro based distro I've 
tried. > > > > >  Others have seemed to get speech in console, but 
I can't seem to > > > > >  make it happen. Vinux has
> > > > >  it, and if i have to i'll put vinux on both machines, 
but that > > > > > seems a little nuts.  I like vinux, and am using 
it now, but > > > > >  would also like the
> > > > >  opportunity to work with these other distros.  I've been 
able to > > > > > install my favorite programs, but trying to use 
them from a > > > > >  terminal just doesn't read
> > > > >  well, so I need the console.
> > > > >  Oh, and before someone says google it, I've done that 
for a > > > > >  week. Nothing helps.  LOL!
> > > > >  Mark Peveto
> > > > >  Registered Linux user number 600552
> > > > >  Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.10
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