both espeak and espeak-ng work. When I do espeak or espeak-ng followed by a word like hello, I hear espeak speak the word. I noticed from looking in /etc/alsa that pipe wire is being used. Does that make a difference? Ryan Mann Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist rmann0...@gmail.com 386-383-5175
> On Jan 10, 2025, at 2:27 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, K0LNY ?? wrote: > >> Also, it might help after installing espeak-ng, to run spd-conf and making >> sure espeak-ng is selected. >> Also, install python3-speechd > > spdconf and python3-speechd both relate to speech dispatcher. > > espeakup does not use speech dispatcher so will make no difference. > > Also, espeakup is not written in Python. > > It is possible to use speakup via speech dispatcher, using the speechd-up > package, but this puts more layers between speakup and the audio output which > is probably not great for latency. Even the package description recommends > using more direct methods instead if you can. > > To comment on the original question, there is an issue in Bookworm with > espeakup under certain circumstances. This has been discussed at length on > this list and I recently tried to reactivate the discussion to make sure that > it gets fixed. > > However, I doubt that this is what's happening here. > > Certainly all accounts I've seen of this issue, including my own experience, > is that espeakup works fine for awhile and then suddenly dies. this can take > awhile to happen and seems to be related in part to what the user is doing. > > If you want to be sure that this isn't the issue, running the following > command as root: > > killall -9 espeakup > > should resolve it. > > If you want to make sure that espeak itself is working, you can run something > like: > > espeak-ng hello > > However, this will require the espeak-ng package to be installed, not just > libespeak-ng1. The espeak-ng package is not a dependency of espeakup so you > may not have it installed. > > Apart from testing that espeak is working, the usefullness of having it is > that you can run commands in the shell and pipe the output to espeak-ng and > have it speak it, which can be very useful when your screen reader is not > speaking. > > HTH, > Geoff. >
