Hi Mike, I would still be interested in your script, as I am using pulseaudio mainly because of the poor speech in alsa. What did you do to suppress all the alsa and jack messages that portaudio outputs? I had to add a lot of lines like "pcm.rear cards.pcm.default" when I used alsa. On Sun, 9 Mar 2014, Mike Ray wrote: > Hello Trevor. > > If you're using pulse then my changes won't be relevant to you because the > changes are applied to wave.cpp which is used for portaudio. > > I now have speech-dispatcher and speechd-up running with espeak compiled for > portaudio and sd configured for alsa. > > I have also installed Orca on the default Raspbian with these changes applied > but so far whenever I try to run Orca the card flakes out. Beginning to > think it's just a step too far for the Pi. Might work with a lighter desktop > than lxde. > > I can send you the script that applies the changes if you want. > > Have you tried trapping the kernel errors with a serial console? On the Pi it > is caused by the VCHIQ baulking at a null pointer caused by latency set too > fast. > > Mike > > On 09/03/2014 17:17, Trevor Astrope wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> Can you share the espeak modifications to prevent the kernel crashes? I >> have speakup working with espeakup on a cubieboard with an armv7hl >> processor. Using pulseaudio solved the stuttering and clipping problem with >> espeak, but I still get the kernel crashes. >> >> On Sun, 9 Mar 2014, Mike Ray wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> >>> I have managed finally to get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up running on >>> a Raspberry Pi and with some tweaks to the eSpeak source code for latency, >>> to stop it stuttering and occasionally crashing the kernel. >>> >>> But at the moment when sd starts SpeakUp is saying 'capital' for every >>> capital letter it finds. >>> >>> I have: >>> >>> DefaultCapLetRecognition "none" >>> >>> In my speechd.conf but this doesn't work. >>> >>> How do I set this off in the SpeakUp configuration? >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> -- >>> Michael A. Ray >>> Analyst/Programmer >>> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK >>> >>> The box said: 'install Windows XP, 7 or better'. So I installed Linux >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > The box said: 'install Windows XP, 7 or better'. So I installed Linux > > 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 > >
