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Hi William and many thanks for your message. I tried exactly what you |
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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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yours sincerely, |
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John Robinson |
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On 09/10/09 21:28, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:02:18PM +0100, John Robinson wrote: |
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>> Hi everyone. I've just been testing the current Gentoo AMD64 live DVD |
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>> http://mirrors.sfo1.gni.com/Gentoo/ten/livedvd-amd64-10.0-20090909-0915.iso and have no problems when booting into it with hardware speech. I am, however, unable to get software speech to work, try as I might. Typing 'gentoo speakup.synth=dectlk nox' makes my Dectalk USB set up like a Dectalk Express work every time. When I type 'gentoo speakup.synth=soft nox' at the boot prompt, I get no speech at all. I have not filed a bug about this, because it's very probably been resolved by someone on this list who knows much more about all this than I do! Any advice about how to get software speech working when I boot this live DVD would be very much appreciated. If you need any information about my computer system, please let me know. |
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>> Yours sincerely, |
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> Hi John, |
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> Ok, try this: |
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> Bring it up with hardware speech, then, try something like this: |
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> espeak 'hello, this is a test.' |
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> That should make espeak say 'hello, this is a test.' If that works, we |
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> know that alsa is being set up correctly. Let me know if this works, |
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> or, if it doesn't, it is important to know what the message is you get. |
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