console speech

Fri Jun 3 05:20:16 UTC 2016

Pulseaudio runs on top of alsa, so what you say makes no sense.
All that pulse audio adds, is per-user control of sound settings.
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Alonzo Cuellar wrote:

> Hi Janina
>
> Yes... Pulse is not compatible with speakup. I do miss the console 
> environment. However, I've learned   to life with the desktop environment. 
> Since I've not tried using a pure alsa system in ages... I'm not sure how 
> stable it is. Pulse has been very stable in my experiences using the desktop.
>
>
> Alonzo
>
>
> On 06/01/2016 08:58 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> 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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