Mike, If you have the configure commands/steps handy, I'd love them, as would others, I'm sure. If not, I'll go looking and post back what I find. Brandon McGinty-Carroll On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 10:22:05PM +0000, Mike Ray wrote: > Hello, > > Espeakup doesn't use either portaudio or pulseaudio. It just calls > espeak, which in it's default configuration uses portaudio. > > It is possible to re-compile espeak to use pulseaudio. I have just > done exactly that in efforts to get tts to work properly on Arch > Linux on a Raspberry Pi. > > espeak using portaudio suffers appalling latency on the Pi and > sometimes crashes the kernel, but using pulseaudio the latency > issues are gone. > > Mike > > On 01/11/2013 20:37, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >If there is a way to use dmix to augment/replace pulse, I'd love to > >know about it. The problem here is that espeakup uses alsa directly > >instead of going through pulse. The only two ways I can think of to > >fix this would be either to be able to run espeakup as a normal user, > >which should force it to use pulse by virtue of opening alsa as a > >regular user from what I understand, or to add pulse support to > >espeakup. Actually, espeak uses portaudio if I remember right, so maybe it's > >as simple as portaudio supporting pulse. > > > >Greg > > > > > >On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:52:48AM +0900, Devon Stewart wrote: > >>Isn't there a way to use alsa's dmix plugin to either replace, or at least augment, pulse? Also, this is assuming that Alsa is being used from the CLI. > >> > >>-Devon > >> > >>On 2013/11/02, at 4:41, "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> wrote: > >> > >>>If I kill pulseaudio, do I still get speech with orca? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>On 11/01/13 14:23, Trevor Astrope wrote: > >>>>Are you using software speech with both speakup and orca? I've had this > >>>>problem with sound not working on the command line after running orca. > >>>>In my case, gnome/orca started a pulseaudio process running as my user, > >>>>even though I have pulseaudio and speechd-up configured to run as a > >>>>system daemon. > >>>> > >>>>Killing the pulseaudio process running as my user gets sound back. You > >>>>may need to restart speechd-up service as well, as I sometimes have a > >>>>problem with this too, but I usually use hardware speech, so I don't > >>>>remember the scenario where that is necessary to do as well. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, John G. Heim wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Sorry if this is an FAQ but is there a solution to that problem with > >>>>>running both speakup & orca in debian 7? Every time I've installed > >>>>>debian 7 (aka wheezy), I can use speakup fine unless I log in at the > >>>>>GUI and run orca. At that point, speakup stops talking and nothing > >>>>>I've found short of rebooting gets it working agin. I understand this > >>>>>has something to do with pulse audio run in the GUI. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>-- > >>>>>--- > >>>>>John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu > >>>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>>Speakup mailing list > >>>>>Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >>>>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>Speakup mailing list > >>>>Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >>>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>>-- > >>>--- > >>>John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Speakup mailing list > >>>Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >>>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Speakup mailing list > >>Speakup at linux-speakup.org > >>http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > -- > Michael A. Ray > Analyst/Programmer > Witley, Surrey, South-east UK > > I KEEP six honest serving-men, They taught me all I know. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. > -- Rudyard Kipling (paraphrased) > > Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? > Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ > > From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
