Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros
Al Sten-Clanton <[email protected]>
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Never heard of fenrir. Do you know where the info about it is? Thanks! Al On 7/11/2016 2:27 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > pulseaudio is responsible for blocking signals that rightfully alsa > ought to get. This is why fenrir will be the official console speech > app for sonar. It wasn't possible to get brltty working correctly either. > > On Sun, 10 Jul 2016, Chris Brannon wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:43:59 >> From: Chris Brannon <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]> >> To: Mark Peveto <[email protected]> >> Cc: blinux <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros >> >> Mark Peveto <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> sudo downgrade espeak >>> That's right, the newer versions of espeak won't allow console speech >>> to work. >> >> Hi Mark, >> I saw this message and remembered that Manjaro and Sonar are using >> espeak-ng, which is a fork of espeak. >> One of the things that changed with espeak-ng is the way audio is >> handled. Actually, espeak-ng uses its very own audio library. >> So I decided to take it for a spin tonight. >> I built a custom copy of the emacspeak speech server and linked against >> espeak-ng, using alsa for the audio. >> It doesn't work. >> I get messages like "file descriptor in bad state" when I try to make >> it speak. >> I haven't tried it with espeakup yet, >> but it doesn't look promising. >> >> This really needs to be fixed. I'll be delving more deeply into the >> issue over the next week or so. >> >> -- Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> >