console speech

[Willem van der Walt]

You can if you are careful.
First make sure your espeakup will talk directly to alsa by making sure 
that espeak itsellf can talk to alsa directly.
If you have another talking linux networked to the box, ssh into this one 
and do things through ssh.
HTH, Willem


On Wed, 25 May 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:

> Can I do that and not murder speech in the process?
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
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> On Wed, 25 May 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>
>> 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
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