Re: espeakup in a console

2025-03-03 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Thank you. Glenn, does this fix the problem? Make sure "amixer" is installed then give this command. amixer sset Master unmute Note the capital M in "Master". Best regards, David Ring On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 10:51 PM Chevelle wrote: > If you think the audio is muted and amixer is instaled yo

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Chevelle, le lun. 03 mars 2025 15:20:14 -0500, a ecrit: > Debian has a long term plan to get rid of pulseaudio and the pipewire > process is running to handle what pulse did previously. Then you can do what > the Debian accessibility FAQ says and configure the 'libao' in > /etc/speech-dispatcher/sp

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
K0LNY wrote: > Can he set espeakup to use an old external synth, and if so, will it fix > this issue? Yes, since that'll avoid using the sound board of the computer. Samuel

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Sebastian Humenda wrote: > @Samuel, have you any idea how to solve this rather complex issue? I don't know. As I have repeated in the past this should be discussed with pipewire people to determine what would be a long-term-maintained solution, or with alsa debian maintainer to possibly de

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Chevelle
In my experience the best thing to do is become root and purge the pulseaudio package.  You may want to have braille running or 'ssh' into the box in case it doesn't work. apt purge pulseaudio Debian has a long term plan to get rid of pulseaudio and the pipewire process is running to handle

Re: making espeakup and orca run on the mate desktop so I can switch between the console and the desktop

2025-03-03 Thread Chevelle
Samuel asks "But doesn't libao conflict with a pipewire running in the desktop?" On this system the line in speechd.conf audioOutputMethod "libao" is not commented out, so it appears to work. On another system I have, when I tried that, I had problems. I think it didn't talk, so I commented th