From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id E53FD1EF242; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rgout0503.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (rgout0503.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk [65.20.0.224]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491D21EF237 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:53:00 -0400 (EDT) X-OWM-Source-IP: 81.152.54.85 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: mike.ray@btinternet.com X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A090204.55F3E7D1.00D1, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=29/50, refid=2.7.2:2015.9.7.170915:17:29.943, ip=81.152.54.85, rules=__HAS_REPLYTO, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __REFERENCES, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NO_NAME, __HAS_FROM, __MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, NINJA_TLD, __HTTPS_URI, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, BODY_ENDS_IN_URL, __MULTIPLE_URI_TEXT, __URI_IN_BODY, __FORWARDED_MSG, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1600_1699, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, __URI_NS, SXL_IP_DYNAMIC[85.54.152.81.fur], HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP, REPLYTO_FROM_DIFF_ADDY, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS, REFERENCES X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Received: from [192.168.0.125] (81.152.54.85) by rgout05.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (8.6.122.06) (authenticated as mike.ray@btinternet.com) id 55E8B24F01073F37 for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:52:31 +0100 Reply-To: mike@raspberryvi.org Subject: Re: Talking Linux for Raspberry Pi References: <1440700654.22746.20.camel@gmail.com> To: speakup@linux-speakup.org From: Mike Ray Message-ID: <55F3E7DF.806@raspberryvi.org> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:52:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1440700654.22746.20.camel@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 08:53:06 -0000 I solved the spluttering tts with espeak and speakup on the Pi by writing an OpenMAX IL library that bypasses the broken ALSA driver: git clone https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git See the raspberry-pi directory. It uses the OpenMAX IL client libraries found in /opt/vc to render audio on the GPU, thus bypassing ALSA totally. Mike On 27/08/2015 19:37, Kyle wrote: > I'm planning to try to get my hands on a Raspberry Pi 2 in the near > future. I will be experimenting with Arch and OpenElec mostly. I got > OpenElec running on my Pi model B, and I was even able to get it > talking. I did have to do some unconventional things with it though, as > OpenElec appears to create its system partition on first boot. So I had > to boot up the Pi, wait about 10 minutes to be sure it did everything > it was supposed to do, pull the plug and then unzip the Kodi screen > reader into the .kodi/addons folder on the newly created system > partition. As for Arch, I have been able to make it run with MATE on > the old beast, but it's really slow, as this is the older single-core > 700MHz. I haven't tried getting Speakup working yet, but my goal is to > get the Pi 2 and work with that more extensively instead of continuing > to mess with the model B. > Sent from my pot of coffee > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Eyes-free Linux: http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/ Raspberry VI: http://www.raspberryvi.org/