Dear All: As is my usual practice, I did a full -Syu upgrade of my two Arch Linux systems this morning. rhvoice is one package that was new this week. It's not working with Speech-Dispatcher. When I do a Alt+F2 and type 'orca -r' I hear the dummy driver audio message. I've reset for espeak-ng in my /etc/Speech-Dispatcher/speechd.conf, and Orca is happy. Yes, I was previously not loading that model (nor Voxin). Sorry, Alexander! Best, Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi, All: > > I thought I should forward my response to Kirk Reiser below to the > blinux list, as we've discussed this here previously. > > I've no idea whether or not Kirk's problem with Debian is the same. I > can only confirm that Espeakup-0.90 and alsa-lib-1.2.5 are still > nonfunctional for me with Arch. > > Here's my email to Kirk on the Speakup list ... > > > Hi, Kirk: > > I'm on Arch, not Debian, but I've had broken Espeakup ever since > alsa-lib-1.2.5 showed up. Since then Espeakup has been upversioned to > 0.90, but this has not fixed things for me, though apparently it has for > Alexander now maintaning Espeakup. > > I currently have two functional Linux machines, both fully upgraded as > of just about half an hour ago except as described below. > > The newer hardware will run by hand with the command: 'espeakup -d', but > it's highly brittle and prone to crash the system so that a three finger > salute is needed. > > If I want console access on this 2020 era box, I have to turn to fenrir, > which I'm just not as comfortable with--but that's another story. > > My older machine is prevented by my /etc/pacman.conf from updating > alsa-lib and espeakup, and it runs just fine. > > So, my suggestion is back off to the latest alsa-lib-1.2.4, and the > latest espeakup-0.8 you have, and you should be fine until someone > figures out what's really going on. > > For anyone running Arch you want the following in your /etc/pacman.conf: > > IgnorePkg =espeakup > IgnorePkg =alsa-lib > > If you've already updated your Arch beyond these versions, you can > downgrade. You'll find a cache of previous versions in: > > /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ > Just cd on over there as root and check what you have with a command > like: > > ls -1 alsa-lib* espeakup* > > You can then downversion with pacman like this: > > pacman -U ./[filename] > > where [filename] is the full name you got from ls. I recommend using the > Speakup clipboard to get the command right. > > Best, > > Janina > > > Kirk Reiser writes: > > Hi folks: Does anyone have espeakup running on debian sid with > > libasound2 1.2.5? After I upgraded a few days ago I lost my speech > > output. I have built espeakup and espeak-ng from the current repo on > > them with no joy either. > > > > Curious minds and all that type thing. > > > > Kirk > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka > https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list