[raspberry-vi] Re: Issue with sound / no speech
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:22:08 +0000
Hello Chris,
The only way to get the sound to come out of the sound system on the
host computer would be to plug it into the sound card on the host and
run some kind of application on the host.
But if you do this, be careful of the input level. The line-in of the
sound-card on the host machine only needs a low level drive and the
output from the 3.5mm headphone jack on the Pi is likely to over-drive it.
Another thing to do might be to mix the outputs from both the host and
the Pi before they are passed to your headphones. You could probably do
this with a simple 'Y' connector but I don't really recommend trying to
mix high-level audio. Better to do it at a lower level.
Mike
On 14/03/2013 17:07, Christopher Emery wrote:
> Hello Micheal,
> Okay, I am redoing my R-Pi with the latest and great release they offer on
> their site.
>
> I have enabled ssh again, I have also connected to the headphone jack to
> speaker, I am NOT in the GUI I am at the command line.
>
> I am now able to get speach output, I had a HDMI cable connected to the
> system which interfered with audio output through the headjack.
>
> Okay is there a way to past the sounds to come though on the host computer
> that I am using?
>
> Sincerely,
> Christopher
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Michael A. Ray <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> No the no speech is not due to SSH. That's how I connect to the Pi.
>>
>> Try these steps:
>>
>> First try running this:
>>
>> speaker-test -c 2
>>
>> You should hear a load of pink noise alternating between right and left
>> channels.
>>
>> Stop it with control C.
>>
>> Next, try turning up the volume/un-muting with:
>>
>> alsamixer
>>
>> When alsamixer starts listen to your screen-reader and if at some point
>> it says 'mute' press the up arrow a large number of times until the
>> screen-reader no longer gabbles. Now press escape to exit alsamixer.
>> Try the speaker-test again. I guess this will solve it because I think
>> the sound is muted by default.
>>
>> Now. if you still have no sound, check you have the espeak data files.
>> I think these are installed along with the synth so you should get a
>> result:
>>
>> sudo find / -name phontab
>>
>> If no file is found, do this:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install espeak-data
>>
>> If you do this step, try speaking again once the install of the data
>> files has finished.
>>
>> If you get no speech, try doing it as root, like this:
>>
>> sudo espeak "text to be spoken" 2> /dev/null
>>
>> If still nothing then I will try flashing a fresh install of Raspbian
>> and see what I need to do to get it working.
>>
>> I know this is a silly question, but I presume you do have speakers or
>> headphones plugged in and they are turned on/up? Careful with
>> headphones because the Pi can be loud.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 14/03/2013 14:34, Christopher Emery wrote:
>>> Hello Michael,
>>> No I didn't get any sound (sad face). Is this because I am sshing into
>> the
>>> pi? If so how can I get sound to come out of my computer setup that I am
>>> sshing / remoting into ?
>>>
>>> Sincerely in Christ,
>>> Christopher
>>
>
>
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