console speech

Wed Jun 1 13:58:55 UTC 2016

Alonzo:

If you're satisfied with working on the desktop alone, then you have
pulse support in Speech-Dispatcher and Orca. But this thread was about
console speech. I believe most of us who value the console environment
have not found pulse compatible with Speakup--which is what most use on
the console for a screen reader.

Janina

Alonzo Cuellar writes:
> hello,
> 
> My thoughts. Pulse Audio has more functionality then Alsa. Alsa is great for
> a low level system meaning only command line access. If you run a graphical
> environment you will not be able to get discovery of sound automatically
> unless of course you write some sort of scripts for Alsa.
> 
> I happen to think though that when Pulse Audio was beginning to be upon the
> Linux community most of us who used Espeakup relied on Alsa heaviely. Now
> its a bit of a problem for a user who wants the desktop experience.
> 
> Thats just what I see.
> 
> 
> alonzo
> 
> 
> On 05/26/2016 09:32 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Once pulseaudio is purged, try powering off the system then start the
> > system up again and find out what happens.  If everything works, the
> > system will reconfigure to account for the absence of pulseaudio and you
> > should have speech back again once that happens.
> > 
> > On Thu, 26 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 03:32:44
> > > From: Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com>
> > > Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: Re: console speech
> > > 
> > > Tried, but it totally jacked up my sound after that.  I'm having to
> > > reinstall again.
> > > 
> > > On 05/25/2016 01:58 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > > Mark has to get rid of pulseaudio and all of its dependencies.
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, 25 May 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:10:06
> > > > > From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> > > > > Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > > > > To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > > > > Subject: Re: console speech
> > > > > 
> > > > > Get rid of pulseaudio.
> > > > > You should be able to google how to do that on your distro.
> > > > > HTH, Willem
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, 25 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I'm at my witt's end!  I'm working with f123, a manjaro
> > > > > > based distro, and have had really good luck, until it
> > > > > > comes to console speech using espeakup.
> > > > > > It'll speak for about 30 seconds, then I get a
> > > > > > pulseaudio error that looks like this.
> > > > > > assirtion 'p' failed at pulse/simple.c:273, function
> > > > > > pa_simple_write(). Aborting.
> > > > > > It's shot me down on every manjaro based distro I've
> > > > > > tried. Others have seemed to get speech in console, but
> > > > > > I can't seem to make it happen. Vinux has
> > > > > > it, and if i have to i'll put vinux on both machines,
> > > > > > but that seems a little nuts.  I like vinux, and am
> > > > > > using it now, but would also like the
> > > > > > opportunity to work with these other distros.  I've been
> > > > > > able to install my favorite programs, but trying to use
> > > > > > them from a terminal just doesn't read
> > > > > > well, so I need the console.
> > > > > > Oh, and before someone says google it, I've done that
> > > > > > for a week. Nothing helps.  LOL!
> > > > > > Mark Peveto
> > > > > > Registered Linux user number 600552
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