espeakup

2018-07-17 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, I’m having issues where speech just stops. Killing espeakup and restarting it is the only thing that seems to help. It does not appear to crash. Does anyone have any ideas about how this can be improved? How close to upstream master is the current package? I see that a few patches

Re: espeakup

2018-07-17 Thread Frank Carmickle
libgpg-error. I also see that espeak-ng was updated in the last week, and so maybe that has something to do with better performance now also? Is anyone still using espeakup or has everyone moved on to something else? —FC > On Jul 17, 2018, at 12:45 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: > >

Re: espeakup

2018-07-26 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello Samuel, Thank you for the response. > On Jul 24, 2018, at 8:29 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le mar. 17 juil. 2018 12:45:56 -0400, a ecrit: >> I’m having issues where speech just stops. Killing espeakup and restarting >> it is t

Re: espeakup

2018-07-26 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi, Thanks for the direction. > On Jul 26, 2018, at 2:14 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 26 juil. 2018 14:07:03 -0400, a ecrit: >>> so we have an idea of what it is doing. >> >> I’m not that good with a debugger. I wo

Re: espeakup

2018-08-03 Thread Frank Carmickle
Samuel, Did you see the backtrace in my last message? Thanks --FC > On Jul 26, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the direction. > >> On Jul 26, 2018, at 2:14 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Frank

Re: espeakup

2018-08-14 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Aug 14, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le ven. 03 août 2018 15:36:47 -0400, a ecrit: >> Did you see the backtrace in my last message? > > Yes, I just didn't get around finding the time to analyze it yet. No worries at

espeakup stopping speaking and slugish interuption of speech

2019-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello list, For quite some time, years, I’ve been running espeak1.48.04+dfsg-5 espeakup1:0.80-1 libasound2:amd641.1.2-1 libasound2-data1.1.2-1 on hold. If I run anything after these versions I run into trouble with espeakup stopping speaking.. Today I tried current buster and I’m still seeing

Re: espeakup stopping speaking and slugish interuption of speech

2019-04-08 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Samuel, On Apr 7, 2019, at 7:27 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 04 avril 2019 11:34:53 -0400, a ecrit: >> I run into trouble with espeakup stopping speaking.. > >> After downgrading the packages to the versions I mentioned abo

Re: making an accessible boot disk

2019-05-31 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi all, This is why, where ever I can I buy systems that support out of band management, in most cases, ipmi. This way you can choose to change the boot order , boot from the network or disk, without going into the bios or if you must get into the bios you can have someone do it remotely for

espeakup alsa not flushing buffer as of sid 20210905

2021-09-06 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello list, I just upgraded to sid and have found a bug that seems to have crept back in. On boot the system is working as desired, we reading quickly line by line, jumping over lines, the audio buffer is flushed and speech reads the lines as you land on them. After a few minutes of the system

Re: espeakup alsa not flushing buffer as of sid 20210905

2021-10-17 Thread Frank Carmickle
hines. Not the case. I'm spinning the knobs on a bunch of different parameters now and am making progress. Strange how a virtual machines virtual audio hardware buffer size will change on the fly. Best, --FC > On Oct 12, 2021, at 7:19 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, >

Re: creating and maintaining accessible Linux distros

2022-01-05 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings to all, From my 22 years of being a Linux user and advocate, I have seen conversations like the one's we have been having here in the last month, come up quite a bit. I have started a few of those discussions myself. They are difficult because there are lots of words used that have su

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-10 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, > On Feb 10, 2022, at 12:36 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: > > Hi, I am often doing testing of software like Android building and find that > speech will stop during one of the processor heavy building processes. What > I would like to be able to do is to change espeakup and other proce

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-11 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Feb 10, 2022, at 6:36 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 10 févr. 2022 14:44:06 -0500, a ecrit: >>> On Feb 10, 2022, at 12:36 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: >>> Hi, I am often doing testing of software like Android building an

Re: espeakup not speaking screen review from speakup in Debian sid 20211215 while screen refreshing to quickly

2022-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Feb 12, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Samuel Thibault > wrote: > > Hello, > > Digging back this issue, related also to a recent discussion on > debian-accessibility > > Frank Carmickle wrote: >> 0 5.14 and now 5.15. When I write a lot of output to a screen, >

Re: changing the scheduling and niceness of espeakup and related processes

2022-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Feb 12, 2022, at 7:58 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Nick Gawronski, le sam. 12 févr. 2022 18:49:10 -0600, a ecrit: >> If I am using the default espeak voice > > Is this in english? > > (yes, details always matter. I have e.g. gotten reports on the czech > voices crashing) > >> and cat

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native Linux touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss something? Having Braille on touch screen input is a nice to have. We need a way to navigate a touch based GUI first, unless I've missed something. --FC > On A

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a ecrit: >> Please excuse my ignorance. It seems to me that we don't have a native Linux >> touch interface that is accessible, or did I totally miss som

Re: On Braille and Linux

2022-04-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:42 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 09:36:53 -0400, a ecrit: >> >>> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> >>> Frank Carmickle, le lun. 04 avril 2022 08:58:08 -0400, a

Re: Cannot Connect To WIFI

2022-09-03 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello Glenn, > On Sep 3, 2022, at 11:36 AM, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > Hello, > I must be missing something, maybe someone here can assist. > I put my working wpa_supplicant file in /etc/wpa_supplicant folder. > My wireless according to ip is called wlp1s0 > I don't get the first part of the below,

espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2022-10-06 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, Anyone else seeing this? I haven't got any logging to show as of yet, and I'm not sure how to get it as of yet. If anyone could tell me what to adjust to get some logging, as I'm not seeing any now, I'd appreciate it. For now a killall -9 espeakup gets systemd to respawn it. This is

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2022-10-28 Thread Frank Carmickle
t; It would be useful to determine which version of espeakup brought this > regression? Possibly also try to change the version of libespeak-ng1. > > Samuel > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 06 oct. 2022 15:55:01 -0400, a ecrit: >> Hello all, >> >> Anyone else seeing th

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2022-10-28 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi again, > On Oct 28, 2022, at 11:16 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le ven. 28 oct. 2022 11:03:58 -0400, a ecrit: >> I have been taking newer kernels. > > Kernel device drivers introduce buffering, so it can be useful to > investigate if it's a n

Re: Voxin Almost Works

2022-11-02 Thread Frank Carmickle
Glenn, Speakup is a part of the linux kernel packages on debian, linux-image_SOME_VERSION. I really don't think you need to be compiling a linux kernel module for speakup. HTH, --FC > On Nov 2, 2022, at 2:19 PM, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > Where here is a bit of change that happened since my las

Re: installing Debian From Working Debian

2022-12-01 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Dec 1, 2022, at 4:35 AM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > On 12/1/22 03:19, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: >> I'm wondering if there is a way to install a clean install of Debian x86, >> same bullseye version that is on the machine, to an external drive, so I can >> boot to it? > > You can use deboo

tty13-24

2022-12-20 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi all, Slightly off topic, but I don't know where else to ask. Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of using right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24. My newly installed bullseye has me using left alt and shift to get there. Anyone know how to revert to old be

Re: tty13-24

2022-12-25 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Frank Carmickle wrote: > >> Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of using >> right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24. My newly installed bullseye >&

Re: tty13-24

2022-12-25 Thread Frank Carmickle
gt; On 21 Dec 2022, at 11:42, Geoff Shang wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Frank Carmickle wrote: >>> >>>> Interestingly, my sid system hasn't changed from the old behavior of using >>>> right alt for directly accessing tty13-tty24

Re: tty13-24

2022-12-25 Thread Frank Carmickle
> Glenn > - Original Message - > From: "Frank Carmickle" > To: "Debian Accessibility Team" > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2022 11:11 AM > Subject: Re: tty13-24 > > > >> On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:42 AM, Geoff Shang wrote: >> >> O

debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-12 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, I'm trying to boot the debian installer image for arm64 under the utm wrapped qemu on Macos. I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules are not being loaded for any sound cards. Thee modules aren't even in /lib/module/KERNELVER. I'm pretty sure they are on the image,

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Christian, > On Feb 13, 2023, at 3:50 AM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:07:14PM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote: >> I'm trying to boot the debian installer image for arm64 under the utm >> wrapped qemu on Macos. > &g

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Christian, > On Feb 13, 2023, at 9:05 AM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 07:56:04AM -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote: >>> On Feb 13, 2023, at 3:50 AM, Christian Schoepplein >>> wrote: >>> What do I have todo to

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Christian, > On Feb 13, 2023, at 10:29 AM, Christian Schoepplein > wrote: > > Hi Frank and all, > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 03:05:50PM +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote: >> When using the arm64 installer no beep tone was played, but this might be >> because the whole system is running in a V

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Feb 13, 2023, at 2:06 PM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi again, > > >> Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle : >> Yet another thing likely needing work after I get something running, pc >> speaker emulation. I'm guessing that we don't h

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Feb 13, 2023, at 1:57 PM, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Hi Frank, > >> Am 13.02.2023 um 18:18 schrieb Frank Carmickle : >> >> The utm documentation at >> >> https://docs.getutm.app >> >> indicates that you can disable capslock

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-14 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello Samuel, Thanks for the clarification. I look forward to trying it out. Thanks for all of your work. --FC > On Feb 13, 2023, at 4:41 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: >> I've tried differ

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings Samuel, On Feb 14, 2023, at 6:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100, a ecrit: >> Frank Carmickle, le dim. 12 févr. 2023 21:07:14 -0500, a ecrit: >>> I've tried different emulated sound devices but the modules

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-02-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
Samuel, > On Feb 15, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: >> The first thing to note is that the image does not come up talking at all in >> stock configuration. > > What is "the stock con

pipewire config

2023-03-02 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, I am still trying to get a running virtual machine on this m2 system. I was able to get an installation that runs, that I can ssh in to. I have yet to get it talking as my attempts to get a sid system with pipewire working have been unfruitful thus far. Running things like pw-cli, an

Re: pipewire config

2023-03-03 Thread Frank Carmickle
47, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 09:44 -0500, Frank Carmickle wrote: > >> Does anyone have pipewire running as a system service > > Pipewire in Debian only has a per-user service: > >$ dpkg -L pipewire{,-pulse} | grep 'systemd.*\.' >

espeakup sid arm64 under qemu

2023-03-03 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings all, After taking weeks to just get a machine installed, I'm finally finding that the virtualized audio device from qemu and the linux driver aren't getting along so well. At some point the virtualized system stops being able to play sound, and the host systems audio buffer adjusts si

Re: pipewire config

2023-03-03 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Sam, The only real reason why I even tried playing with pipewire at all is I thought maybe connecting back to the host over jack may prove to be better performing than virtualized audio hardware. Does anyone have thoughts about that? You've got me wondering if I should look at emacspeak on m

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-08 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings Samuel, > On Mar 7, 2023, at 19:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: >> On Feb 14, 2023, at 6:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Samuel Thibault, le lun. 13 févr. 2023 22:41:16 +0100,

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-09 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Samuel, > On Mar 8, 2023, at 20:21, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le mer. 08 mars 2023 08:23:27 -0500, a ecrit: >>> On Mar 7, 2023, at 19:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: >>> Frank Carmickle, le mer. 15 févr. 2023 11:22:02 -0500, a ecrit: >>>

Re: debian installer accessibility for arm64

2023-03-10 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 9, 2023, at 13:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 09 mars 2023 13:24:10 -0500, a ecrit: >> -device ich9-intel-hda -device hda-duplex > > Ok, I tried it and it worked here. Possibly there is something different > in UTM vs qemu in Debian. I was a

espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-20 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, I've reported this before, and I believe we had a fix for it. I just saw it happen again. This time it's bookworm arm64 . I can't remember what info was needed to track this down. Let me know what I can do please. Thanks --FC

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2023-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
can do to help track this bugger down! Thanks, --FC > On Oct 28, 2022, at 14:51, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > Hi again, > >> On Oct 28, 2022, at 11:16 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >> Frank Carmickle, le ven. 28 oct. 2022 11:03:58 -0400, a ecrit: >&g

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2023-03-22 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings Jason et al. On Mar 21, 2023, at 11:28, Jason White wrote: > Can you log in remotely and attach gdb to the espeak process when it's not > speaking but (obviously) before you kill it? Then obtain a backtrace. You > might need to install debug symbols for espeakup. Debian has separate

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2023-03-25 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 22, 2023, at 18:12, Jason White wrote: > > > On 22/3/23 15:33, Frank Carmickle wrote: >> Here's the output inside gdb after espeakup stops talking. >> >> /build/gdb-yCDzia/gdb-13.1/gdb/thread.c:85: internal-error: inferior_thread: >> Assertion `cu

Re: espeakup stops speaking version 1:0.90-11

2023-03-25 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 25, 2023, at 13:45, Jason White wrote: > > On 25/3/23 13:27, Frank Carmickle wrote: >> That's nasty. What happens if you run Espeakup within gdb from the beginning? >> It doesn't speak at all. I may just not know what I'm doing in the debugger. >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello James, Thanks for this. It does not print any information when speaking stops. It does print that it received the hangup signal, which is what I sent to kill the process. What shall we add to a build to gain more insight? Thank you, --FC > On Mar 29, 2023, at 09:52, James Addison

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
Glenn, Send us the output of lspci -k As root do alsactl store and send us the contents of /var/lib/alsa/asound.state This should show all the known audio controls. Best, --FC > On Mar 29, 2023, at 00:20, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > Hi Jude, > Here's an update. > After stumbling around with

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 29, 2023, at 10:23, James Addison wrote: > > Ok. I'm not sure what to suggest in terms of build changes, so I'm wondering > about other command-line options before learning more about the build. > > Does the problem occur when using different voices and languages? That appears to be a

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 29, 2023, at 14:17, Frank Carmickle wrote: > That appears to be a very good question, as when I specify a language at all > it doesn't seem to stop speaking. I hadn't even realized that the system > didn't have a value in the config, /etc/default/espeakup. I'

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-03-30 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 29, 2023, at 17:55, James Addison wrote: > > Ok, that's cautiously promising. I guess you missed my followup message that it still does stop speaking. I'm trying to notice as much as I can about the environment when it stops speaking. I do find that it stops speaking mostly when I am na

Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

2023-03-30 Thread Frank Carmickle
e PCM > device 3 > name 'Playback Channel Map' > value.0 0 > value.1 0 > value.2 0 > value.3 0 > value.4 0 > value.5 0 > value.6 0 > value.7 0 > comment { > access 'read write' > type INTEGER > count 8 > range '0 - 36'

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-10 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 30, 2023, at 10:49, James Addison wrote: > > Yep, bugs with unpredictable timing can be particularly hard to track > down. I noticed some references to process threads in one of your > previous messages (the acronym nptl for native posix thread library) > and also in the source code: that

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-11 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Apr 11, 2023, at 13:19, James Addison wrote: > That could be a useful clue. Which of those three systems, if any, > are multi-processor? I suspected such a thing and so today I have been running the qemu arm64 system with a single core. Quite unfortunately it still stops speaking. All of the

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
Good day all, I'm pretty certain now that speech stops when doing screen review by character. Does anyone know what would be different about this that would make this happen? I am on the latest, 0.90-13. Thanks much, --FC

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-13 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Apr 13, 2023, at 14:26, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Carmickle writes: > >Frank> Good day all, I'm pretty certain now that speech stops when >Frank> doing screen review by character. > >Frank> Does an

Re: no audio

2023-04-14 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Apr 14, 2023, at 00:45, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > Hi, > Hope someone knows of some things to try. > Debian Bull'seye. > I don't know if Orca is working, the audio on the desktop does not work, but > I got it working in SSH and Terminal. > When I run spd-say test over SSH, I get this message

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-04-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Apr 15, 2023, at 08:25, James Addison wrote: > > > If you're using systemd to manage services on those hosts: does the > system journal indicate any failures/restarts of the espeakup service? No. Systemd only notices when I send the HUP signal. Even when I run it in the foreground, and the

Bookworm 20230504 - sound state is muted on power on with qemu 7.2 arm64

2023-05-04 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings Debian accessibility folk, I'm finding that on power on the sound card is muted. It appears that alsactl restore is being run, and even if I run it by hand it doesn't unmute the card. It appears that the card is in a muted state even though alsa thinks that it is not. Toggling the mut

Re: Bookworm 20230504 - sound state is muted on power on with qemu 7.2 arm64

2023-05-05 Thread Frank Carmickle
rs on virtualized guests? I have other machines with speakup running here also, but I tend not to use them, as they aren't integrated in to my workflow. My real concern is if speakup is going to be the terminal screenreader I use going forward? I really appreciate the discussion. Thank

Re: Installing More than One Linux on BTRFS Disk

2023-08-03 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello David, On Aug 3, 2023, at 11:46, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > Is there a tutorial for me to read to understand if additional Linux > distributions installed on the same device need separate BIOS BOOT and EFI > SYSTEM partitions in addition for a separate partition for that added Linux >

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-08-18 Thread Frank Carmickle
Greetings, I've been living with this for the last sixish months, and it's annoying. I have a console where I can just up arrow and hit enter for `killall -1 espeakup` I would love to see this get fixed but I've gotten nowhere with debugging it. I haven't tried Sam's recommendation of having a

Re: Massive sound Issue with debian 12 under vmware on m2 mac.

2023-08-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Aug 29, 2023, at 04:47, mr apple wrote: > > Hey everyone > I kinda have an issue here regarding debian 12 on my m2 macbook air running > the newest version of both vmware and mac os. > What happens is as soon as I boot into the fresh installed vm and the mate > desktop comes up, all sound s

Re: Noobie questions about installing Debian for blind user

2023-10-19 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello Susan, On Oct 18, 2023, at 21:19, Susan Fowle wrote: > > My blind husband, Tom, has used very old Debian version Jessie on a very old > machine for many years. Something finally broke or got corrupted. > > So we are planning to buy a new small computer (Kingdel Desktop Computer, > Intel

Re: Noobie questions about installing Debian for blind user

2023-10-19 Thread Frank Carmickle
Susan, > On Oct 19, 2023, at 11:41, john doe wrote: > > On 10/19/23 03:19, Susan Fowle wrote: >> My blind husband, Tom, has used very old Debian version Jessie on a very old >> machine for many years. Something finally broke or got corrupted. >> >> So we are planning to buy a new small compute

Re: Mac mini 2014 will not show Debian installer grub menu.

2023-10-22 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Oct 22, 2023, at 10:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Note that you need to select the graphical boot entry in order to get > speech support. > > Beeping might not be supported on the mac mini, but if it's grub, the > "s" shortcut should be working. None of the apple products wi

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-11-27 Thread Frank Carmickle
ther or not the debug symbols packages help us trace the process when it locks up. I'll try again to run the debugger, but I don't think much has changed since I last check four months ago. --FC > > Tom > > > -Original Message- > From: James Addison > Se

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-20 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Dec 20, 2023, at 13:21, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, James Addison wrote: > >> To do that, the first step is to enable a sources.list entry for debug >> symbol packages, then to install the gdb and espeakup-dbgsym packages, >> and then after the espeakup process stops speak

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Dec 20, 2023, at 18:34, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > James Addison, le mer. 20 déc. 2023 23:03:33 +, a ecrit: >> sthibault: do you think this could be related to >> https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/pull/48 ? > > Possibly. Testing would give a definite answer. > It took me a c

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2023-12-29 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Dec 29, 2023, at 15:54, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Geoff Shang, le jeu. 21 déc. 2023 19:39:42 +0200, a ecrit: >> On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >>> thread apply all bt full >>> >>> :) >> >> OK, you got it. >> >> This produced 20 kb of output, so I've attached it

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-01-06 Thread Frank Carmickle
Samuel, I know that I don't have anything interesting about my alsa config. I'd try your new espeak packages but I'm on arm64. My bookworm system was built from your modified debian installer. I have just built a trixie arm64 machine today, if that would be more helpful. Best, --FC

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2024-03-15 Thread Frank Carmickle
Waking up this thread. Samuel and others. Please let us know what we can do to help get this one sorted. Thanks so much. --FC > On Jan 23, 2024, at 08:20, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Jan 2024, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Geoff Shang, le jeu. 04 janv. 2024 15:04:22 +0200, a ecrit: >>> I

Re: best way to change speakup defaults in debian automatically when the system boots into console mode

2024-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
> On Mar 21, 2024, at 11:51, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2024, Nick Gawronski wrote: > >> Hi, I was wondering what is the proper method as I can not locate any >> documentation on how to change things like rate and volume and pitch >> automatically when the system boots as there is

Re: best way to change speakup defaults in debian automatically when the system boots into console mode

2024-03-21 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mar 21, 2024, at 13:39, Chime Hart wrote: > > Well Geoff, I wonder if speakupconf only has an affect on software speech? > Anyway, as I have mentioned in multiple lists since 2003, I have a DecTalk > USB, similar to an Express. The settings in dectlk.c are not what I want. > While reading,

Re: espeakup stops speaking D-i bookworm amd64 on 11gen Lenovo Carbon X1

2024-05-28 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Tom, On May 28, 2024, at 08:40, Tom Moore wrote: > > Hi, > I have noticed Speakup being unstable on Arm64 as well. > This seems to be limited to this arch from what I can tell. > Amd64 works fine. > One thing I notice is that the first 10th of a second or so the speech > cuts off. > For exa

Re: installing debian with vmware work station speech stops part way threw the installation

2024-08-16 Thread Frank Carmickle
This sounds like the same issue that has been bugging me for over a year now, where espeak stops speaking, without crashing. It seems to happen only in virtual machines. --FC > On Aug 16, 2024, at 08:25, Jason J.G. White wrote: > > > On 15/8/24 17:01, Nick Gawronski wrote: >> On windows 11

Re: Debian Installer

2003-03-17 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Mario Lang wrote: > Luke Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > linux-speakup.org, has a Debian installer with speakup, if that is what > > you desire. > > The latest information I have about the speakup-enabled woody > boot-floppies is that they do not work. Do you have any

debian installer and speakup

2003-08-22 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all, I would like to help in getting speakup in to the debian installation system. With the requests for the woody disks to be updated I feel as though we should just offer a speakupized debian installer for the installation of sarge. Sorry for my lack of responses about the woody disks th

Re: debian installer and speakup

2003-09-05 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Mario Lang wrote: > That is a good time! I have just created the 'access' > floppy flavour in d-i. Check it out from CVS, we basicly > just have to set a special kernel version/name, and build with that. > The access flavour currently supports brltty. But if it would be > e

access floppies

2004-08-16 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Mario and all I had an occasion to use the access floppies a number of times in the last few weeks. I could not get any speech from speakup. I have not yet tried the disks with a serial terminal or sighted assistance so I am not even sure how far they are really getting. I resorted to using

help available

2008-07-16 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all Samuel your cry for help has been heard. What can I do? I have some experience building debs. I am not a C programmer so I can't help in that area. I don't mind reading docs and learning new things. --Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Make syslinux beep?

2008-08-12 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Tue, Aug 12, Samuel Thibault wrote: Snip. > > Also, please use '[ ] && [ ]' instead of '[ -a > > ]'. > > I'm curious: why? To bash specific. Have a look at the dash man page. --Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: speakup enabled d-i?

2008-09-10 Thread Frank Carmickle
On Wed, Sep 10, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Frans Pop, le Wed 10 Sep 2008 11:38:21 +0200, a ?crit : > > I would suggest to only add speakup to the graphical installer images. > > That would be better than nothing, as that includes the complete network > installer (not the businesscard). > > > I wou

Re: Information about synthetizers

2008-09-24 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi Sauro On Wed, Sep 24, Sauro Cesaretti wrote: Snip > Could you advice me some ways to use linux > > console only with voice please? > I heard about speakup but I don't know > > exactly what is the scope of that and if it's > > the right solution for this problem. I have been using speakup as my

ibmtts

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hi again I went looking for the gnome-speech-ibmtts package tonight and I realized that it's not available in amd64. Would it be very difficult to have the amd64 depend on the ia32libs and add -m32 to the gcc flags such that one could just install gnome-speech-ibmtts? I am currently looking a

speakup

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Carmickle
Hello all I have had a number of issues with speakup and the lenny 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel. Has anyone else had any troubles? I am now using a 2.6.27.4 kernel and it is much better. I still had an issue today when speakup stopped speaking after updating hal. I have seen this twice now. Does

Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

2025-01-06 Thread Frank Carmickle
t; > I have actually not upgraded one of my machines from Bullseye due to this > issue. > > At the very least, I would not like to see this bug make it into Trixie. > > Geoff. > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2024, Frank Carmickle wrote: > >> Waking up this thread. >> &