One of them is a Model B or maybe B+ and has bluetooth and WiFi built in to the mother board and the other is extremely similar except the only built-in network interface is the RJ45 port. That one I got in 2016 or so. The B+ is also used to sniff our WiFi network so I have tshark on both Pi's. When speakup was working in Debian Stretch, it was kind of rough but basically worked with a little patience. Both essentially run SSD cards that are copies of each other except for stuff I added after the basic system got up and running. Except for speakup, they both work fine. One is set to British time so I can record programs off of the BBC if desired plus there is a cron job that uses a usb-to-serial converter to set the real-time clock on a short wave radio to UTC AKA GMT. In reality, all of our modern computers keep UTC and use rule sets to calculate what local time should be. As for sounding like Louis Armstrong, speakup is more like intermittent larenjitus Listening to it makes me want to put my covid mask on. I also suspect that there may be an easier way these days to install speakup but searches for how-to's are bringing up articles from 2012 which are Dead-Sea scrolls in today's world. Thanks for the responses as I have posted messages to the RVI group also and the silence is deafening. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
