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Hi William. All my sound card channels were still muted when I started |
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Alsamixer. In case it's relevant, the LSPCI utility describes my sound |
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card as follows: |
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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High |
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Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) |
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Alsamixer reports that my soundcard is of type HDA Intel and that the |
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audio chip itself is a Realtek ALC883. If you need any clarification or |
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further details, please let me know. I would very much appreciate any |
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further suggestions or advice you may have. |
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Yours sincerely, |
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John Robinson |
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On 09/10/09 22:22, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:55:01PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: |
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>> Hi William and many thanks for your message. I tried exactly what you |
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>> suggested, booting into the live DVD and typing 'gentoo |
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>> speakup.synth=dectlk nox' at the boot prompt. My Dectalk USB started |
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>> speaking as it should, but after all Alsa modules were loaded, it |
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>> announced that no Alsa configuration was present and that I'd have to |
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>> unmute my card. Sorry I couldn't record the exact message. I then |
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>> launched Alsamixer, unmuting all channels and turning them up to full |
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>> volume. After pressing 'Escape' to save the settings, I played an MP3 |
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>> file with Mplayer to ensure that my card was unmuted. This file played |
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>> successfully. I next typed 'espeak "Hello,this is a test."' as you |
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>> suggested. There was no error, but I heard no speech at all. Finally, |
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>> I repeated the same procedure, but output the result to a Wave file. I |
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>> played this successfully in Mplayer. |
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>> In conclusion, Espeak appears to be able to creat Wave files on my |
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>> system, but does not appear to be able to speak through Alsa, even when |
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>> all my sound card's channels are unmuted. I would very much appreciate |
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>> any advice you may have as to how to resolve this. |
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> Ok John, we found this issue, and we are working on building another |
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> image that will allow espeak to speak through alsa. |
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> The other thing I am concerned about though is your sound card. When |
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> you started alsamixer was everything still muted? |
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> William |
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