console speech
Jude DaShiell
jdashiel at panix.com
Tue May 31 15:15:27 UTC 2016
The usb stuff has a database on systems and usually has a script to run
to update those identities. If I remember update-usb-ids.sh is what
it's called. Those updates come from a central website provided by the
usb industry.
On Tue, 31 May 2016, John G Heim wrote:
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 09:28:08
> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: console speech
>
> 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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