Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

The package is in alpha so not ready for you to handle yet, probably 
early alpha too.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:33:21
> From: Al Sten-Clanton <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros
> 
> 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
>>> 
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