console speech

[Karen Lewellen]

Does that concept work with hardware speech as well?
Just curious,


On Mon, 30 May 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Not in the case of talkingarchlinux.  That distro has a script for automatic 
> sound card discovery and it's able to install a system in a way where the 
> default will be usb speakers when the installation is complete.
> Kalilinux which uses pulseaudio cannot find usb speakers and match what 
> talkingarchlinux can do now.  The pulseaudio system is a control system not 
> anything that works on low level stuff.  A couple sighted people who built me 
> a new computer and installed kalilinux on it for me and myself later verified 
> all of this.
>
> On Sun, 29 May 2016, Alonzo Cuellar wrote:
>
>>  Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 13:53:28
>>  From: Alonzo Cuellar <mariachiac at gmail.com>
>>  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>  To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>>  Subject: Re: console speech
>>
>>  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
>> > > > > >  Sent from vinux using alpine 2.20.10
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