Hi, I did try both: amixer sset Master 100% and amixer sset Master 100% unmute The message that came back indicated that it isn't muted. If that isn't the solution, I will appreciate suggestions, my Linux CLI skills are limited. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Volodymyr Dorozhinsky" <dorozhinsky@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2022 12:38 PM Subject: Re: Voxin/ibmtts with eSpeakup Maybe sound is muted... Can You try to increase volum level? On 11/4/22 16:37, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > I ran the following: > sudo adduser audio lenny > and I got the message that lenny was already a member of audio. > speaker-test works as sudo, but no sound without sudo. > Just like spd-say, no errors, just no audio. > Any ideas? > Thanks. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email> > Cc: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Speakup is a screen > review system for Linux." <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2022 6:45 PM > Subject: Re: Voxin/ibmtts with eSpeakup > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 02:40:57PM -0500, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > >> spd-say test, without sudo is still silent >> but with sudo, I get Voxin. > Is the user you're running spd-say as in the audio group? > >> So, espeakup, or just speakup, whichever I'm using, is not runing as >> sudo, > As far as I know, espeakup runs as root, unless you have a user named > sudo on your system, and have made necessary changes to run espeakup > as that user. Also, you need to decide what you want speakup to > use. More likely espeakup and speech-dispatcher will just get in each > other's way. If you're going to stick with voxin, you want to use > speechd-up. If you're going to stick with espeak, you want to use > espeakup. > > Greg > >