It was indeed pulseaudio. I killed the pulseaudio process and ran aplay again but it still did not work. But I noticed that another pulseaudio process had been started. So then I removed the pulseaudio package entirely. Now it works. But then I ran startx and got no speech from orca. But then I ran spd-conf and configured speech-dispatcher for alsa and now I get speech in the GUI too. So this is all good. This is my network server so I don't care about the GUI too much anyway. But it looks like if I really need a GUI, I'll have it. Thanks everybody. Linux rocks. Well, the linux support community, specifically speakup and orca, rocks. On 6/5/19 9:22 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hey John: When I've had similar issues with sound it's because there > is usually a pulse audio process running or trying to run. There are > work arounds to be able to use pulse audio but I believe it includes > running it as root or something. I don't use pulse audio so I'm not > sure of the work around but others are using it. > > Kirk > > On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, John G Heim wrote: > >> I am running a debian buster machine in character mode. Speakup with >> software speech works fine but I can't get any other sound. When I >> use aplay to play a wav file, it prints the data indicating that it >> is playing the file but there is no sound. The same with espeak and >> spd-say at the command line. No error messages are displayed but >> there is no sound. I would think it was a volume problem except I can >> hear speakup. The sound card controls have volume settings, they are >> not user settings, right? >> >> -- John G. Heim, jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 608-263-4189 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
