Oops, one important correction to my last post ... I just ran another Syu upgrade on said machine, which gave me a new kernel and, therefore, a reboot. Espeakup was silent on reboot, so I again created the /etc/asound.conf file and rebooted again. Bingo. Speech. Best, Janina Janina Sajka writes: > Very relevant observation, Jason. > Indeed, that file I refer to seems to have been deleted by one upgrade > or another over the past week--I've run several. > > So, not sure what's going on under the hood. All I can say is that > creating that file, for whatever reason, caused Espeakup to work on the > System76 Meerkat system. > > On my older, 2012 era custom built Linux board, Espeakup-0.80 is still > required, but it now works with the latest alsa. No matter what I try, > Espeakup-0.90 won't work, even though the espeak command speaks using > espeak-ng. So, I downgraded to the latest Espeak, dated on Arch from mid > December, and downgraded Espeakup accordingly. > > Apparently there must be some kind of reason why Espeakup can't be > agnostic between espeak and espeak-ng? > > Best, > > Janina > > Jason White writes: > > > > On 22/12/21 11:38, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > What was the fix? > > > > > > I introduced a file: > > > > > > /etc/asound.conf > > > > Interestingly, I don't have that file on my Arch Linux system, but there are > > various configuration files under /etc/alsa/conf.d, apparently placed there > > by Pipewire packages. > > > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka > (she/her/hers) > https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > -- Janina Sajka (she/her/hers) https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
