I use Speakup with PulseAudio all of the time. I'm using it on vinux 4, but I know there's a work around to use this combination on other distros. For example, here's a post to a
Linux accessibility list:
It isn't necessary to use systemwide Pulse audio anymore. I use console speech on my Ubuntu box at home which has Pulse Audio installed and configured in the recommended way (not systemwide) and I am able to use Speakup just fine. The trick is to start it from a Gnome Terminal within X:
sudo modprobe speakupg_soft start=1
sudo espeakup
Just my thoughts,
Alex M
On 11/16/2015 04:58 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
Well, for me, I use speakup almost all the time on my Linux box. I am
not willing to give that up so that pulse audio can be used. I probably
use speakup over 80 percent of the time I run Linux.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I’ve never used speakup. I do use speech dispatcher and it works
fine with pulseaudio.
regards,
Tim
—
Tim Cross
On 17 Nov 2015, at 9:13 AM, Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I think some of the problems with PulseAudio stem from when we try
and use Speakup with espeakup. speakup and espeakup run as a
central service (I should say espeakup is a central service) where
PulseAudio runs as individual user sessions. I want to be able to
use speakup at all login prompts and I don't believe this is
possible with pulse. Now if I'm wrong about some of this, I would
be glad to hear some corective measures. Last thing I want is the
inability to use speakup. So I for one has resisted the use of
pulse for years. At present, I have to keep pulseaudio binary
marked as non-executable so as not to cause the emacspeak espeak
module from going silent.
If pulseaudio would indeed work while I use speakup, then I could
have speech dispatcher run with pulse and hopefully then I could
take advantage of full sound support in gnome. So I would be
interested if pulse could really be all that trusted.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
If your using espeak witch has been compiled to use portAudio
rather than native pulseaudio, you will get much better
performance/reliability if you re-compile it to use
pulseaudio. This involves changing one define in the source
and then recompiling. Much much simpler than trying to remove
pulseaudio. Not sure why distros still ship espeak with
portaudio rather than pulseaudio as the default. Use to make
sense when pulseaudio was still a little immature, but these
days, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
On 17 November 2015 at 01:37, Jude DaShiell
<jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
espeak compiled to use portaudio which is distributed in
the talkingarch distribution.
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:31:39
From: Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
To: emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: Re: different test results
Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:31:41 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
What synthesizer are you talking about and what
distribution? I've never noticed an issue with
Emacspeak and PulseAudio except when using eSpeak
compiled to use PortAudio. Once I recompile eSpeak to
use the runtime or PulseAudio options, everything is fine.
On 11/16/2015 05:53 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
emacspeak post-install slows speech rate when
running, so I'm not
certain pulseaudio is playing all that well with
emacspeak.
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Tim Cross wrote:
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 16:17:55
From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Cc: emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>><mailto:jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Subject: Re: different test results
My question would be why get rid of pulseaudio?
Early versions of pulseaudio had performance
issues, but that was a long
tiime ago. I've been using pulseaudio on
multiple systems with both
Outloud
viavoice and espeak without a problem (though
last time I used espeak, I
did re-build it and ensure the native
pulseaudio support was enabled. Not
sure if that is still necessary). On some
systems, such as those where I
use Outloud ViaVoice, I have to install 32 bit
as well as 64 bit libs and
it all works flawlessly.
Pulseaudio is now the default sound layer on
Linux systems and it
would be
better to embrace it rather than fight against
it. It means you no longer
need to have custom asoundrc files, have an
easy way to set different
volume and other characteristics for different
sound sources etc.
I have tried the remoal of pulseaudio and it
can be one, but it is a
lot of
effort and will 'sneak' back when you decide
to install a new program
which
has any sound support because pulseaudio is
often the default config.
If you have pulseaudio issues, I would
strongly recommend tracking those
down and fixing them rather than attempting to
remove pulse. While I did
need to do some tweaking with older verisons,
I've found all the distros
I've tried have resolved those issues now and
have not needed to do any
tweaking of the pulse setup for at least 2+ years.
On 15 November 2015 at 23:07, Jude DaShiell
<jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx
To do this right, I need to learn how to
do three things.
1) remove pulseaudio from an existing
archlinux system,
2) prevent pulseaudio from installing on
pre-existing archlinux
system in
future,
3) find out how to install an archlinux
system without pulseaudio and
keep
it off newly installed systems.
Any help along these lines will be
greatfully received.
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:23:35
From: Jude DaShiell
<jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Cc: emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: Re: different test results
Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:23:36
-0500 (EST)
Resent-From: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
The basic sound output is alsa since
pulseaudio doesn't make any sound
but does manage alsa.
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Tim Cross wrote:
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 15:36:38
From: Tim Cross
<theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
To: Jude DaShiell
<jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Cc: emacspeak
<emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: Re: different test results
Are you using alsa or pulseaudio
as your basic sound output?
I would be surprised if SOX is
causing problems. One of the options
for
playing auditory icons now uses
SOX. I've used this as my default for
auditory icons on both Linux and
OSX for the past few months and it
works
really well. I am using viavoice
outloud on linux rather than espeak
though.
It isn't clear (to me) from your
email exactly what you expected from
your
tests and what is not working
correctly.
On 8 November 2015 at 20:54, Jude
DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx>"<mailto:jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Before doing the next test, I
removed the sox package from the
system
then
rebooted.
This time tclsh enter just
said espeak next q "this is a
test."
enter d
enter said this is a test. I
couldn't find any percent
signs on the
screen
even after hitting the enter
key a couple times so I typed
exit enter
and
exited back to the servers
directory. With emacspeak
starting up on
emacs,
speech is at normal speed not
slower. That sox package and
emacspeak
may
not play nicely together.
I put it on the machine to
enable recording from
microphone into
files
on
the computer originally.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the
emacspeak list or change your
address on the
emacspeak list send mail to
"emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx
with a
subject of "unsubscribe" or
"help".
--
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your
address on the
emacspeak list send mail to
"emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx>" with a
subject of "unsubscribe" or "help".
--
regards,
Tim
--
Tim Cross
--
Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail
|All Past Years |Current Year|
If you have questions about this archive or had problems using it, please contact us.