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Hi John, |
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We need the full output from the following commands: |
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lspci -vv |
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amixer |
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Also it would help if you can tell us which channels on your sound card |
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you usually unmute. |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:38:23PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: |
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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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-- |
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William Hubbs |
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gentoo accessibility team lead |
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williamh@g.o |