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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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