[raspberry-vi] Re: Linux voices
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:47:32 +0000
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
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Michael A. Ray
> <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> It's normal to get these errors. I don't know how to get rid of them.
>>
>> You still got the speech though, right?
>>
>> You could avoid these errors by doing this:
>>
>> espeak "text to be spoken" 2> /dev/null
>>
>> That directs error text to go to /dev/null which is just a 'bit bucket',
>> a kind of black hole into which to throw stuff.
>>
>> You could create an alias command for espeak and not have to type '2>
>> /dev/null' after every command.
>>
>> It's useful when running something that takes a long time, like:
>>
>> sudo apt-get upgrade
>>
>> To put a command which will tell you when it's done:
>>
>> sudo apt-get upgrade && espeak "Finished upgrade" 2> /dev/null
>>
>> Although in the above example the text will only be spoken if the
>> command before the '&&' succeeds.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
>
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