A question about Fenrir on Arch linux

Fri May 21 14:17:40 UTC 2021

Have you run spd-conf and selected espeak-ng as your synthesizer for
speech-dispatcher?

On Fri, 21 May 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Hello there,
>
>
> removing espeak doesn't fix it, the same problem still persists.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Francisco.
>
>
> On 5/21/21 12:36 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Howdy
> >
> >> I have espeak, sox, and xclip installed, plus pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa,
> >> alsa-utils and plugins.
> > espeak-ng is used by default instead of espeak. espeak-ng is the successor
> > of espeak. do take care to not install espeak but espeak-ng and give another
> > shot :).
> >
> >
> > Am 21.05.21 um 11:47 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> >> Hello there,
> >>
> >>
> >> Just for the heck of it, I redid a clean install of arch with pulseaudio
> >> this time, and I configured everything I needed running the sh script you
> >> indicated.
> >>
> >> It half works, and half doesn't.
> >>
> >> What I mean by that is that when I restarted the machine, just a few
> >> seconds ago and ran fenrir as sudoer, it played the sound icon, thing that
> >> with pipewire didn't happen, but gave me no speech at all.
> >>
> >> I have espeak, sox, and xclip installed, plus pulseaudio, pulseaudio-alsa,
> >> alsa-utils and plugins.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Thanks again.
> >>
> >> Best regards.
> >>
> >> Francisco.
> >>
> >> On 5/18/21 5:06 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>> Howdy,
> >>>
> >>> do you have the requirements for the generic sound / voice drivers
> >>> installed?
> >>> To get sure, reinstall it execute:
> >>> sudo pacman -S sox espeak-ng xclip
> >>>
> >>> sox is used for play sound, espeak for voice output in the default
> >>> configuration, xclip is a funny toy to let fenrir share the clipboard
> >>> between your GUI and Terminal.
> >>>
> >>> start fenrir for testing in foreground - you can stop it using CTRL + C
> >>> sudo fenrir
> >>>
> >>> did you hear the startup sound? fenrir plays a little soundicon at
> >>> startup.
> >>>
> >>> if not, then pulseaudio is not configured.
> >>> short story execute:
> >>> # configure user
> >>> /usr/share/fenrirscreenreader/tools/configure_pulse.sh
> >>> # configure root
> >>> sudo /usr/share/fenrirscreenreader/tools/configure_pulse.sh
> >>>
> >>> # need to restart that the configuration for both get active
> >>>
> >>> restart
> >>>
> >>> then retry
> >>>
> >>> sudo fenrir
> >>>
> >>> long storry: fenrir needs by default to run as root to collect the data on
> >>> your screen or caputre the input devices. if fenrir speaks or creates
> >>> sound, it does this as root user. you wont hear sound of an other user by
> >>> pulseaudio (sound server) design. We need to transport the sound created
> >>> as root to the sound server you have running as user to finally hear the
> >>> sound.
> >>>
> >>> fenrir provides 2 scripts (see above) to configure the root puse audio to
> >>> send the data to your user and configure user pulse audio to listen to the
> >>> sound sent by root and play it.
> >>>
> >>> cheers chrys
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 18.05.21 um 14:46 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello there,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks so much, now, that part of the problem is solved!
> >>>>
> >>>> The other part, how ever, that is not solved, is that fenrir doesn't
> >>>> speak with espeak, or espeak-ng.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do I have to set something somewhere for that to happen?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks again.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards.
> >>>>
> >>>> Francisco.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5/18/21 10:24 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>>>> Howdy Francisco,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i dont know why those libs are not an dependency by python-pyenchant if
> >>>>> those are spread warnings. Maybe this should be reported to the package
> >>>>> maintainer. But anyway.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> you can ask pacman what package contains the specific file you need by
> >>>>> "sudo pacman -Fy filename". here i did this for for example in
> >>>>> libvokko.so:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 10:14 [chrys at blackbeast ~] :) $ sudo pacman -Fy libvoikko.so
> >>>>> [sudo] Passwort f?r chrys:
> >>>>> :: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
> >>>>>  core 903,5 KiB  6,17 MiB/s 00:00
> >>>>> [#########################################################################]
> >>>>> 100%
> >>>>>  extra 9,3 MiB  26,9 MiB/s 00:00
> >>>>> [#########################################################################]
> >>>>> 100%
> >>>>>  community 22,8 MiB  29,6 MiB/s 00:01
> >>>>> [#########################################################################]
> >>>>> 100%
> >>>>>  multilib 222,5 KiB  12,8 MiB/s 00:00
> >>>>> [#########################################################################]
> >>>>> 100%
> >>>>> extra/libvoikko 4.3.1-1
> >>>>>     usr/lib/libvoikko.so
> >>>>> 10:15 [chrys at blackbeast ~] :) $
> >>>>>
> >>>>> so the package you need for libvokko.so is "libvoikko"
> >>>>> to silence out all the warnings do this:
> >>>>> sudo pacman -S libvoikko nuspell hspell
> >>>>>
> >>>>> this install all 3 (IMO optional dependency's, what should not create a
> >>>>> warning, but well, it is like it is)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i use irssi as IRC (commandline) client. there is also Pidgin (as
> >>>>> graphical client). both are very nice.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> looking forward to see you in IRC :).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> cheers chrys
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Am 18.05.21 um 08:57 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion:
> >>>>>> Hello there,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I managed to install one of the libraries, but not the other two, so
> >>>>>> thanks for that.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Also, thanks for suggesting to use yay, I just installed it, I didn't
> >>>>>> know yaourt was deprecated.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> My question now is, and this'll be dum, what are recommended IRC
> >>>>>> clients? how do I get them working? what should I know before joining
> >>>>>> an IRC channel, what ever it might be?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks again.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Best regards.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Francisco.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 5/17/21 9:19 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >>>>>>> Hi, I just posted a link to this message intended to chrys (Fenrir
> >>>>>>> author) on the #a11y channel of irc.linux-a11y.org.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Maybe join him there?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Didier
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Le 17/05/2021 ? 20:15, Linux for blind general discussion a ?crit :
> >>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I just downloaded fenrir-git from the AUR using yaourt.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> When I try to run fenrir with the command
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> fenrir
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> in a terminal, how ever, i get fenrir's startup sound, and this:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> [francisco at Blueblink ~]$ fenrir
> >>>>>>>> ** (process:7008): WARNING **: 20:12:45.374: Error loading plugin:
> >>>>>>>> libhspell.so.
> >>>>>>>> 0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>>>>>>> ** (process:7008): WARNING **: 20:12:45.374: Error loading plugin:
> >>>>>>>> libvoikko.so.
> >>>>>>>> 1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>>>>>>> ** (process:7008): WARNING **: 20:12:45.377: Error loading plugin:
> >>>>>>>> libnuspell.so
> >>>>>>>> .4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Any ideas on how to fix it, and no speech either.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thank you for any answer.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Best regards.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Francisco.
> >>>>>>>>
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