no speech in talkingArch cd

no speech in talkingArch cd

[Rob Hudson]

I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and hit m and up arrow a few times, tried
amixer set Master 100%
amixert set PCM 100%
amixer set Front 100%
I have a serial to usb adaptor so I even did
brltty -b al -d /dev/ttyUSB0
nothing.
It does spin a lot and rumbles to itself, but nothing I did got any reaction.
What else can I try?
The vinux cd's all booted fine here, so it's something about that particular cd. This is 2012/11/something .iso of the arch cd.

Re: no speech in talkingArch cd

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Greetings!

I use a command like this for amixer, if memory serves:

amixer -c 0 sset Master 100%

I think the "-c 0" is for the soundcard to use.  There may be another 
dash before "sset" (set with an extra s).  I think I added "playback" 
after Master when I last did this.  I think I also need to capitalize 
the M in Master.

hth
Al


On 06/03/2013 05:21 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and hit m and up arrow a few times, tried
> amixer set Master 100%
> amixert set PCM 100%
> amixer set Front 100%
> I have a serial to usb adaptor so I even did
> brltty -b al -d /dev/ttyUSB0
> nothing.
> It does spin a lot and rumbles to itself, but nothing I did got any reaction.
> What else can I try?
> The vinux cd's all booted fine here, so it's something about that particular cd. This is 2012/11/something .iso of the arch cd.
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Re: no speech in talkingArch cd

[Rob Hudson]

My box has only one card in it so you don't eed the -c parameter. But maybe 
I'll plug in my soundblaster and see if that works.
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Subject: Re: no speech in talkingArch cd


> Greetings!
>
> I use a command like this for amixer, if memory serves:
>
> amixer -c 0 sset Master 100%
>
> I think the "-c 0" is for the soundcard to use.  There may be another dash 
> before "sset" (set with an extra s).  I think I added "playback" after 
> Master when I last did this.  I think I also need to capitalize the M in 
> Master.
>
> hth
> Al
>
>
> On 06/03/2013 05:21 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
>> I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and hit m 
>> and up arrow a few times, tried
>> amixer set Master 100%
>> amixert set PCM 100%
>> amixer set Front 100%
>> I have a serial to usb adaptor so I even did
>> brltty -b al -d /dev/ttyUSB0
>> nothing.
>> It does spin a lot and rumbles to itself, but nothing I did got any 
>> reaction.
>> What else can I try?
>> The vinux cd's all booted fine here, so it's something about that 
>> particular cd. This is 2012/11/something .iso of the arch cd.
>> _______________________________________________
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Re: no speech in talkingArch cd

[Al Sten-Clanton]

That's good to know.  Maybe I don't need it, either; I was just 
following the examples in the amixer manual as well as I could.

Al

On 06/03/2013 06:36 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> My box has only one card in it so you don't eed the -c parameter. But
> maybe I'll plug in my soundblaster and see if that works.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Sten-Clanton"
> <albert.e.sten_clanton@verizon.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@linux-speakup.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: no speech in talkingArch cd
>
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I use a command like this for amixer, if memory serves:
>>
>> amixer -c 0 sset Master 100%
>>
>> I think the "-c 0" is for the soundcard to use.  There may be another
>> dash before "sset" (set with an extra s).  I think I added "playback"
>> after Master when I last did this.  I think I also need to capitalize
>> the M in Master.
>>
>> hth
>> Al
>>
>>
>> On 06/03/2013 05:21 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
>>> I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and
>>> hit m and up arrow a few times, tried
>>> amixer set Master 100%
>>> amixert set PCM 100%
>>> amixer set Front 100%
>>> I have a serial to usb adaptor so I even did
>>> brltty -b al -d /dev/ttyUSB0
>>> nothing.
>>> It does spin a lot and rumbles to itself, but nothing I did got any
>>> reaction.
>>> What else can I try?
>>> The vinux cd's all booted fine here, so it's something about that
>>> particular cd. This is 2012/11/something .iso of the arch cd.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
>>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>>
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Re: no speech in talkingArch cd

[Kyle]

The TalkingArch image has a script that is supposed to unmute the sound
so that it starts talking correctly. If you are not getting speech, it's
possible that your soundcard has an oddly named mixer control for either
master or pcm output. Using your Vinux or other image that works, try
running

amixer

with no arguments, installing it if necessary. Most Debian and Ubuntu
derivatives will allow you to use

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install amixer

or similar if it isn't already on the system. Running amixer without any
additional parameters will allow you to find out the names of your mixer
controls so you can set them properly from the TalkingArch CD. Hope this
helps.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: no speech in talkingArch cd

[Chris Brannon]

"Rob Hudson" <captinlogic@gmail.com> writes:

> I ran the talking arch cd but I got no speech. I ran alsamixer and hit m and up arrow a few times, tried
> amixer set Master 100%
> amixer set PCM 100%
> amixer set Front 100%

Here's an old trick I've used for debugging this sort of thing.  It
worked very nicely in the days of the floppy disk, because you could
hear the floppy drive spin when you mounted it.
If you have a spare flash drive handy, you can do the same thing with a
flash drive, but there's a lot more guess-work involved.  I don't know
what your hardware configuration is like, but I'll assume that you only
have one hard disk.  If that's not the case, you'll have to change these
instructions to match your config.

Boot from the CD.  Wait a while.  There's no real way to be sure it has
booted.  A few tones from the console speaker would make a nice
indicator, so I think I'll add that to the next CD release, just to help
in these situations.
Once the CD is booted, your hard drive should be /dev/sda.  Plug in your
flash drive.  Hopefully, that'll show up as /dev/sdb.  Like I said,
guesswork.
Now,
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
amixer > /mnt/amixer-output.txt
umount /mnt
Unplug, reboot, and hope that the amixer output got saved to the flash
drive.

-- Chris