Hello, I am in this situation too. It has just occurred to me. I wonder if it is possible to dual boot a pi. Thus have a GUI boot option and a cli option. It would be easy to mount any desired file systems from the active system. Yes, see: https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-dual-boot/ <https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-dual-boot/> Regards, > On 18 Jan 2021, at 03:43, Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Georgina Call: M0EBP DMR ID: 2346259 Allstar: 52178 Locater: IO83PS _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup