From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: befuddled.reisers.ca; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=rednote.net header.i=@rednote.net header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=dkim header.b=nnVS1gBN; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id AF34138114A; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:34:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.rednote.net (opera.rednote.net [66.228.34.147]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9EC53380EA8 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:34:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.rednote.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 017ADFA278; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:34:18 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rednote.net; s=dkim; t=1640709259; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=GNexuwml3m8qC+9Whx/XhvX9gcbYVqeReQHt/Bz5LtQ=; b=nnVS1gBN9t/GpZ+VXZ7VgMA4uM3OX/6N0kljTO2TpkaSRF6p61oJgb/Ms54Y1hNbTBgsNV ePjS1DFZx7Fc9ip7nB3ldZJNCnAJkM9lqgbH8X3l50r9rz3Xzyb2AGZsgo52TrOQK0OsIF n0yonkUEQXz9qWZue4hMlpQLIjM2+RI= DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.rednote.net 017ADFA278 Authentication-Results: mail.rednote.net; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=rednote.net Authentication-Results: mail.rednote.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=rednote.net Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.17.1/8.16.1/Submit) id 1BSGYI5V936378; Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:34:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 11:34:18 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: Jason White Cc: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: Now Fixed: Archlinux Speakup problems after alsa package upgrade Message-ID: References: <20210609072927.3igbp7jvopq3c6f7@begin> <20210609110828.kpo76f2zmbixjran@begin> <6b4b229d-5e00-22e4-8cf2-33ed7bbd6b93@gmail.com> <3cefe3e6-f95a-ffe9-5995-543d6e4357db@jasonjgw.net> X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 5.15.8-200.fc35.x86_64 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.5 Oops, one important correction to my last post ... I just ran another Syu upgrade on said machine, which gave me a new kernel and, therefore, a reboot. Espeakup was silent on reboot, so I again created the /etc/asound.conf file and rebooted again. Bingo. Speech. Best, Janina Janina Sajka writes: > Very relevant observation, Jason. > Indeed, that file I refer to seems to have been deleted by one upgrade > or another over the past week--I've run several. > > So, not sure what's going on under the hood. All I can say is that > creating that file, for whatever reason, caused Espeakup to work on the > System76 Meerkat system. > > On my older, 2012 era custom built Linux board, Espeakup-0.80 is still > required, but it now works with the latest alsa. No matter what I try, > Espeakup-0.90 won't work, even though the espeak command speaks using > espeak-ng. So, I downgraded to the latest Espeak, dated on Arch from mid > December, and downgraded Espeakup accordingly. > > Apparently there must be some kind of reason why Espeakup can't be > agnostic between espeak and espeak-ng? > > Best, > > Janina > > Jason White writes: > > > > On 22/12/21 11:38, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > What was the fix? > > > > > > I introduced a file: > > > > > > /etc/asound.conf > > > > Interestingly, I don't have that file on my Arch Linux system, but there are > > various configuration files under /etc/alsa/conf.d, apparently placed there > > by Pipewire packages. > > > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka > (she/her/hers) > 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 > -- Janina Sajka (she/her/hers) 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