Re: console speech

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 <[email protected]>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> 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 <[email protected]>
>>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
>>> 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 <[email protected]>
>>>>>  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
>>>>>  To: [email protected]
>>>>>  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 <[email protected]>
>>>>> > >  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion 
>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>> > >  To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
>>>>> > >  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 <[email protected]>
>>>>> > > > >  Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion > > > > 
>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>> > > > >  To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
>>>>> > > > >  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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