Raspberry question

Raspberry question

[kperry]

 

Well, it has been a long time since I have been on this list.   Over the
years I have been using Orca, but I have been missing speakup.  I have used
my raspberry PI's up to this time on ssh.  I was hoping that the new release
in December of the rasbion which has access built in would just work out of
the box.   I am able to get Orca going and Emacspeak, and even espeak at the
command line.  

 

The problem is speakup seems to be working but does not work.    When I am
at the tty terminal using the keyboard and with Xwin shut down.   I can make
espeak say thins but I am not able to get speakup to work.  When I do PS I
can see that both speak up and espeakup -V are running.  I have tried doing

 

Sudo Systemctl enable espeakup.service

Sudo Systemctl start espeakup.service

 

I have even tried without the .service on the previous lines.  So far
nothing I have tried has got speakup talking. 

 

Does anyone know how to get speakup to talk on the new Rasbion build?  I
would much rather be using speakup than Ora or emacspeak.

 

I have asked this on the Raspberry PI list already and no one has answered.

Ken

 

Re: Raspberry question

[Glenn K0LNY]

Hey Ken,
Is speech dispatcher running?
Can you get something from:
spd-say hello

HTH
Glenn
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Subject: Raspberry question




Well, it has been a long time since I have been on this list.   Over the
years I have been using Orca, but I have been missing speakup.  I have used
my raspberry PI's up to this time on ssh.  I was hoping that the new release
in December of the rasbion which has access built in would just work out of
the box.   I am able to get Orca going and Emacspeak, and even espeak at the
command line.



The problem is speakup seems to be working but does not work.    When I am
at the tty terminal using the keyboard and with Xwin shut down.   I can make
espeak say thins but I am not able to get speakup to work.  When I do PS I
can see that both speak up and espeakup -V are running.  I have tried doing



Sudo Systemctl enable espeakup.service

Sudo Systemctl start espeakup.service



I have even tried without the .service on the previous lines.  So far
nothing I have tried has got speakup talking.



Does anyone know how to get speakup to talk on the new Rasbion build?  I
would much rather be using speakup than Ora or emacspeak.



I have asked this on the Raspberry PI list already and no one has answered.

Ken



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Re: Raspberry question

[Gregory Nowak]

Sounds like you're getting bit by pulseaudio. You have three options:

1. Hook up a USB sound card, and set espeakup to use that instead.

2. Replace espeakup with speechd-up. Note that speechd-up hasn't been
   developed in something like the last 10 years, and doesn't let you
   control as many things as espeakup does.

3. Dump pulseaudio, and setup speech-dispatcher to output using libao
   in speechd.conf. I think the raspbian desktop has a core dependency
   on pulseaudio. If I'm right, then this may not be an option.

Greg


On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 05:04:31PM -0500, kperry@blinksoft.com wrote:
>  
> 
> Well, it has been a long time since I have been on this list.   Over the
> years I have been using Orca, but I have been missing speakup.  I have used
> my raspberry PI's up to this time on ssh.  I was hoping that the new release
> in December of the rasbion which has access built in would just work out of
> the box.   I am able to get Orca going and Emacspeak, and even espeak at the
> command line.  
> 
>  
> 
> The problem is speakup seems to be working but does not work.    When I am
> at the tty terminal using the keyboard and with Xwin shut down.   I can make
> espeak say thins but I am not able to get speakup to work.  When I do PS I
> can see that both speak up and espeakup -V are running.  I have tried doing
> 
>  
> 
> Sudo Systemctl enable espeakup.service
> 
> Sudo Systemctl start espeakup.service
> 
>  
> 
> I have even tried without the .service on the previous lines.  So far
> nothing I have tried has got speakup talking. 
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know how to get speakup to talk on the new Rasbion build?  I
> would much rather be using speakup than Ora or emacspeak.
> 
>  
> 
> I have asked this on the Raspberry PI list already and no one has answered.
> 
> Ken
> 
>  
> 
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> 

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Re: Raspberry question

[Georgina Joyce]

Hello,

I am in this situation too. It has just occurred to me. I wonder if it is possible to dual boot  a pi. Thus have a GUI boot option and a cli option. It would be easy to mount any desired  file systems from the active system.

Yes, see: 
https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-dual-boot/ <https://raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi-dual-boot/>

Regards,
> On 18 Jan 2021, at 03:43, Gregory Nowak <greg@gregn.net> wrote:
> 
> Sounds like you're getting bit by pulseaudio. You have three options:
> 
> 1. Hook up a USB sound card, and set espeakup to use that instead.
> 
> 2. Replace espeakup with speechd-up. Note that speechd-up hasn't been
>   developed in something like the last 10 years, and doesn't let you
>   control as many things as espeakup does.
> 
> 3. Dump pulseaudio, and setup speech-dispatcher to output using libao
>   in speechd.conf. I think the raspbian desktop has a core dependency
>   on pulseaudio. If I'm right, then this may not be an option.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 05:04:31PM -0500, kperry@blinksoft.com wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Well, it has been a long time since I have been on this list.   Over the
>> years I have been using Orca, but I have been missing speakup.  I have used
>> my raspberry PI's up to this time on ssh.  I was hoping that the new release
>> in December of the rasbion which has access built in would just work out of
>> the box.   I am able to get Orca going and Emacspeak, and even espeak at the
>> command line.  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The problem is speakup seems to be working but does not work.    When I am
>> at the tty terminal using the keyboard and with Xwin shut down.   I can make
>> espeak say thins but I am not able to get speakup to work.  When I do PS I
>> can see that both speak up and espeakup -V are running.  I have tried doing
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sudo Systemctl enable espeakup.service
>> 
>> Sudo Systemctl start espeakup.service
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have even tried without the .service on the previous lines.  So far
>> nothing I have tried has got speakup talking. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to get speakup to talk on the new Rasbion build?  I
>> would much rather be using speakup than Ora or emacspeak.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have asked this on the Raspberry PI list already and no one has answered.
>> 
>> Ken
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>> 
> 
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