console speech

Tue May 31 13:28:08 UTC 2016

Even though speakup doesn't support USB synths, you can identify 
hardware synths via the USB subsystem and load the appropriate speakup 
serial port driver. I have a udev rules file that could identify 2 or 3 
different hardware synths and worked with debian squeeze. I don't think 
I ever tried it under wheezy. I've switched to ubuntu and have not tried 
it at all with systemd udev. I had an idea of trying to get as many 
people as possible to send me USB identity strings so I could add more 
and more rules.

On 05/30/2016 01:16 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> No, talkingarchlinux does not have the code in its script to search 
> for or identify hardware speech synthesizers, at least not yet.  Some 
> of those hardware speech synthesizer manufacturers won't make 
> identification protocols available either.
>
> On Mon, 30 May 2016, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:48:11
>> From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
>> 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
>>
>> 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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