Sounds like you're getting bit by pulseaudio. You have three options: 1. Hook up a USB sound card, and set espeakup to use that instead. 2. Replace espeakup with speechd-up. Note that speechd-up hasn't been developed in something like the last 10 years, and doesn't let you control as many things as espeakup does. 3. Dump pulseaudio, and setup speech-dispatcher to output using libao in speechd.conf. I think the raspbian desktop has a core dependency on pulseaudio. If I'm right, then this may not be an option. Greg On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 05:04:31PM -0500, kperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Well, it has been a long time since I have been on this list. Over the > years I have been using Orca, but I have been missing speakup. I have used > my raspberry PI's up to this time on ssh. I was hoping that the new release > in December of the rasbion which has access built in would just work out of > the box. I am able to get Orca going and Emacspeak, and even espeak at the > command line. > > > > The problem is speakup seems to be working but does not work. When I am > at the tty terminal using the keyboard and with Xwin shut down. I can make > espeak say thins but I am not able to get speakup to work. When I do PS I > can see that both speak up and espeakup -V are running. I have tried doing > > > > Sudo Systemctl enable espeakup.service > > Sudo Systemctl start espeakup.service > > > > I have even tried without the .service on the previous lines. So far > nothing I have tried has got speakup talking. > > > > Does anyone know how to get speakup to talk on the new Rasbion build? I > would much rather be using speakup than Ora or emacspeak. > > > > I have asked this on the Raspberry PI list already and no one has answered. > > Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
