I solved the spluttering tts with espeak and speakup on the Pi by writing an OpenMAX IL library that bypasses the broken ALSA driver: git clone https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git See the raspberry-pi directory. It uses the OpenMAX IL client libraries found in /opt/vc to render audio on the GPU, thus bypassing ALSA totally. Mike On 27/08/2015 19:37, Kyle wrote: > I'm planning to try to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 2 in the near > future. I will be experimenting with Arch and OpenElec mostly. I got > OpenElec running on my Pi model B, and I was even able to get it > talking. I did have to do some unconventional things with it though, as > OpenElec appears to create its system partition on first boot. So I had > to boot up the Pi, wait about 10 minutes to be sure it did everything > it was supposed to do, pull the plug and then unzip the Kodi screen > reader into the .kodi/addons folder on the newly created system > partition. As for Arch, I have been able to make it run with MATE on > the old beast, but it's really slow, as this is the older single-core > 700MHz. I haven't tried getting Speakup working yet, but my goal is to > get the Pi 2 and work with that more extensively instead of continuing > to mess with the model B. > Sent from my pot of coffee > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Eyes-free Linux: http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ Raspberry VI: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
