If you get the right case, you can get something other than a 2 inch pc speaker too. On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, John G Heim wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:52:06 > From: John G Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together > > I don't think PC speakers are rare at all. I am responsible for over 100 > desktops and every one of them has a PC speaker. Of course, they are all > Dells. But even the machines I built myself for my own use with Asus mobos > have PC speakers. I find it hard to believe there exist mobos that don't have > a PC speaker connector. The machine might not have anything connected to it > but the connector is there. It's like with serial ports. There are plenty of > mobos available with serial port header blocks. You just have to buy a cable > to get the DB9 port. You might have to buy a PC speaker if you're building > your own machine. > > It's worth a couple of extra bucks to get a machine with a PC speaker because > then you can configure a grub init tune. > > On 11/21/18 8:16 AM, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Man, those have become as rare as hen's teeth. And they're not about to > > make a resurgence. > > > > Furthermore, they tend to be buried in amongst all kinds of other > > hardware. Is that really how you would want to orient your speaking monitor? > > Deep in the bowels of some computer case? > > > > I know I want to go exactly the opposite way. I've my audio out running > > through a desktop Mackie mixer and usually talking through some quality > > desktop speakers. If I need, I can route to some serious JBL IONs. I'm > > contemplating adding Google Cast to my options. > > > > Janina > > > > John G Heim writes: > >> Is there any way to get speakup to work through the PC speaker? > >> > >> > >> > >> On 11/20/18 1:11 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >>> Janina Sajka, le mar. 20 nov. 2018 10:31:03 -0500, a ecrit: > >>>> Pulseaudio is supposed to eliminate this problem, > >>> > >>> If espeakup was running as the same user as the one who is logged in, > >>> yes. But it'd mean you wouldn't have screen reading before logging in. > >>> > >>>> Under alsa both espeakup and speech-dispatcher are likely unable to > >>>> share the same hardware device. > >>> > >>> Indeed, unless enabling the dmix plugin. > >>> > >>> Using different sound boards is another solution indeed. > >>> > >>> Samuel > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
