Hehehe It should sound so nice!
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Wait, you have a computer that sounds like louis Armstrong?
ahem, sorry could not resist that description.
Karen
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Kirk Reiser wrote:
I can't really answer the question directly. I will say I am running a
couple of raspbery pi 4bs with debian sid with speakup but I had to
compile espeak, espeak-ng and espeakup from source because the distro
built apps are fucked. The voice on the default is very granular or
gravelly but the old espeak works fine if compiled from source. Now
that's using the 32-bit OS. I have the 64-bit distro but haven't
installed it yet.
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Gregory Nowak wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 01:37:21PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I have two Raspberry Pi's that I upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch)
> to 10 which is Buster. Both seem to have survived the upgrade
> except for speakup which is now mute.
You don't mention the model of the rpi you have. Do you have audio in
general? if not, this might help you, specifically the sound section:
<https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3>
I don't have speakup setup right now on either of my rpi units, so
can't test this for you.
> It's been 2 or 3 years since I installed speakup on a
> Raspberry Pi and I seem to remember a certain download of speakup
> that works especially well but I don't remember exactly how I got
> it which is why I am asking the list.
The only thing that comes to mind is a tutorial written way back by
Mike Ray which describes on how to get speech from the rpi sound
hardware in both the text console and the GUI. My understanding is
that this isn't an issue anymore, but I could be wrong. I did a quick
search to see if I could find that, but had no luck.
> > When I was running stretch on these Pi's, I got pretty
> much the same performance one gets from a full-sized desktop
> system so I want to not lose that capability now. Thanks.
Again, you don't mention the model of rpi you're using. However, I'm
curious what you do for web browsing on the rpi? I wanted to find out
when I first got my rpi3b unit a few years ago now if it could replace
my laptop. I found that it mostly could, but that firefox was laggy
enough and the software speech unresponsive enough when loading a
particularly resource heavy page that serious web browsing couldn't be
done. The rpi4 units with 8G of ram could probably handle it now
though. I also recall Chris Brannon mentioned using an rpi on this
list as a thin client. However, what you said above seems to imply use
as a stand alone unit.
Greg
