Since adding speakup to an existing linux installation is not hard, I just tried it on a raspberry pi running wheezy. The ARM wheezy kernel has the speakup modules in it so I added speakup_soft to /etc/modules and then did apt-get espeakup while logged in to it remotely from a system that already talks. There were no complaints so I got the headphones, plugged in to the audio jack and remotely rebooted the pi. It came up talking but it's not all good. There is a long stream of error messages about sound modules and some other process appears to contend with resources used by speakup as there are intermittent periods of a rhythmic stoppage of voiceover at a rate of about 20 beats per second followed by periods of perfect speakup speach. The effect reminds me of listening to someone yell in to a fan. During the rhythmic stoppages, speakup slows down in speech rate but not pitch. The speech just quits for about a twentieth of a second and then resumes. Interestingly enough, the built-in audio interface in the pi can both speak and play music at the same time. When the digital hiccups are happening, the music still plays properly but speakup is having a fit so it's just the speakup process that is effected. There are also periods of many seconds in which the hiccups stop and speakup is working fine. It has now been about an hour since I rebooted the raspberry pi with speakup added and the seizures are mostly gone. The problem appears to be related to tasks that are going on just after boot and after an hour of normal operation, whatever tasks are interfering with speakup appear to no longer be a factor. Speakup mostly just works with an occasional rough patch that I probably wouldn't hear if I wasn't listening for it. One final observation. I plugged an older-style Macintosh keyboard in to one of the 4 usb ports on the pi. Most of the keys work but a PC-style usb keyboard or a real keyboard plugged in to a usb adapter probably works better as some of the keys on the Apple keyboard don't respond as one might expect. I had kind of expected the GUI to come up but I had a command-line login prompt and it just works when you log in. This is pretty neat, actually as you get a talking unix terminal that mostly works perfectly for around 50 Dollars. The system is currently running 24/7 to record radio traffic via a usb sound card so if speakup's presence blows up the radio logging program, I'll let everybody know. So, does speakup work on a raspberry pi? Yes but I give it a B+ so far because of the contention issues that make the speech really goofy for several minutes followed by much improvement. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list