I'm reposting an excerpt from a message I posted on the Orca list this morning, but it's really not about Orca. It's all about Speakup using espeakup-git and espeak-ng. Here's the context. Didier helped me to get both espeak-ng and espeakup-git to build. I'm now able to launch it on my X86_64 Arch system. But, there are very significant issues that will probably have me rolling back to the old espeak and the shipping espeakup. Details below quoted and edited to include only Speakup related info. Any suggestions most welcome. Didier Spaier writes: > ... > > Speakup won't work, and espeakup-git won't build with a similar error, > > i.e. -lespeak not found. > > Not a big issue. > Reinstall espeak-ng, then either edit the make command > of the PKGBUILD here: > https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=espeakup-git > si it becomes > make LDLIBS='-lespeak-ng -lpthread' > or edit the Makefile in the SLKBUILD, > inserting before the "make" line, in the build() function these lines > sed "/LDLIBS/s/.*/LDLIBS=-lespeak-ng -lpthread/" Makefile > dummy > mv dummy Makefile > > I don't know what is the recommended Arch way, sorry I never > used Arch. > The Arch tools that allow for building Arch User Repository (AUR) applications like espeak-ng, speech-dispatcher-git, espeakup-git, or orca-git provide an easy mechanism for this situation. One is prompted to choose editing the build and install files early in the process, so I was able to add your code immediately above the make } directive in the build file and all worked as expected from that point. However, espeakup-git is not all that usable. I will leave this configuration working for now in case someone has some good suggestions. Problems noted so far: 1. The post installation guidance printed to screen by espeakup-git install is not working for me. Enabling espeakup@user does nothing. In order to get speech output, I have to enable espeakup explicitly, and sometimes run a 'sudo systemctl restart espeakup' after logging in. 2. I discovered systemctl start speakupconf is assuming an /etc/speakup directory with relevant data. I had to puruse journalctl to discover this. Shouldn't this be checked on speakupconf install? 3. espeakup-git is honoring the default card directive in * /etc/asound.conf. This is new. The shipping espeakup, as all * previous incarnations, simply chose the first available audio * card. I need my Speakup device to be different from the alsa * default. This is a problem for me, though I can live with it for * the moment. 4. Setting /etc/asound.conf to default card 0 loads a totaly * unusable speakup. Screen review on the numpad is quite broken, * especially 4-5-6 and 1-2-3 (word and char) review. Also, speech * is NOT immediately silenced by Keypad-Enter or Ctrl. CARD 0 is * the onboard HDA Intel audio device. 5. Resetting the default in /etc/asound.conf to CARD 2 fixes much * of the problem in 4. above. CARD 2 is a Sennheiser headset * device that I intend for making SIP calls, but both linphone and * freeswitch are currently broken on Arch, so this is the * configuration I've temporarily resumed using. Screen review * works as expected here, but silencing speech is still an issue. * Also, a spurious "space" is read with 7-8-9 and after pressing * Enter on a command. 6. In both cases, both speech-dispatcher and espeakup, my cards are blocked to other output, i.e. no dmix. This is new. The shipping espeakup was not giving me this problem. 7. I should note that I have espeak-ng on two machines. The problems resolved in this thread were from my main desktop X86_64 system. I have previously successfully installed Arch toa USB3 flash drive for booting a 2013 vintage Apple Airbook. Until the update just this week to the latest Arch 4.17.3 kernel, plus whatever audio drivers came with that update, the problems with espeakup-git mentioned above were NOT visible on the Apple, except for the reading of the spurious "space" char. However, the Apple is similarly broken now. Something in very recent updates has broken things badly on the Apple. Janina _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
