rhvoice broken on Arch

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi Janina,

I am but puzzled as RHVoice 1.4.2 works here (Slint).

AFAIK the only thing that changed since I have built it is the packaging.

Is rhvoice listed among the available synthesizers in the Orca 
preferences GUI?

Cheers,
Didier

Le 18/09/2021 à 17:43, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> Dear All:
> 
> As is my usual practice, I did a full -Syu upgrade of my two Arch Linux
> systems this morning.
> 
> rhvoice is one package that was new this week. It's not working with
> Speech-Dispatcher. When I do a Alt+F2 and type 'orca -r' I hear the
> dummy driver audio message.
> 
> I've reset for espeak-ng in my /etc/Speech-Dispatcher/speechd.conf, and
> Orca is happy. Yes, I was previously not loading that model (nor Voxin).
> 
> Sorry, Alexander!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Janina
> 
> Linux for blind general discussion writes:
>> Hi, All:
>>
>> I thought I should forward my response to Kirk Reiser below to the
>> blinux list, as we've discussed this here previously.
>>
>> I've no idea whether or not Kirk's problem with Debian is the same. I
>> can only confirm that Espeakup-0.90 and alsa-lib-1.2.5 are still
>> nonfunctional for me with Arch.
>>
>> Here's my email to Kirk on the Speakup list ...
>>
>>
>> Hi, Kirk:
>>
>> I'm on Arch, not Debian, but I've had broken Espeakup ever since
>> alsa-lib-1.2.5 showed up. Since then Espeakup has been upversioned to
>> 0.90, but this has not fixed things for me, though apparently it has for
>> Alexander now maintaning Espeakup.
>>
>> I currently have two functional Linux machines, both fully upgraded as
>> of just about half an hour ago except as described below.
>>
>> The newer hardware will run by hand with the command: 'espeakup -d', but
>> it's highly brittle and prone to crash the system so that a three finger
>> salute is needed.
>>
>> If I want console access on this 2020 era box, I have to turn to fenrir,
>> which I'm just not as comfortable with--but that's another story.
>>
>> My older machine is prevented by my /etc/pacman.conf from updating
>> alsa-lib and espeakup, and it runs just fine.
>>
>> So, my suggestion is back off to the latest alsa-lib-1.2.4, and the
>> latest espeakup-0.8 you have, and you should be fine until someone
>> figures out what's really going on.
>>
>> For anyone running Arch you want the following in your /etc/pacman.conf:
>>
>> IgnorePkg   =espeakup
>> IgnorePkg   =alsa-lib
>>
>> If you've already updated your Arch beyond these versions, you can
>> downgrade. You'll find a cache of previous versions in:
>>
>> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
>> Just cd on over there as root and check what you have with a command
>> like:
>>
>> ls -1 alsa-lib* espeakup*
>>
>> You can then downversion with pacman like this:
>>
>> pacman -U ./[filename]
>>
>> where [filename] is the full name you got from ls. I recommend using the
>> Speakup clipboard to get the command right.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Janina
>>
>>
>> Kirk Reiser writes:
>>> Hi folks: Does anyone have espeakup running on debian sid with
>>> libasound2 1.2.5? After I upgraded a few days ago I lost my speech
>>> output. I have built espeakup and espeak-ng from the current repo on
>>> them with no joy either.
>>>
>>> Curious minds and all that type thing.
>>>
>>>    Kirk
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Janina Sajka
>> https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka
>>
>> Linux Foundation Fellow
>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
>>
>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
>> Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
>>
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