Hi Group,
I sent this to a couple other lists, and haven't heard back, and although my
question isn't really about the Raspberry PI, the problem I need help with is
much like some of the distros we sometimes use on the Raspberry PI.
So I'll paste what I posted, below.
Thanks for any ideas.
Glenn
I'm hoping some of you might have some ideas for me to try getting Orca going
on Skywave Linux.
https://skywavelinux.com/
Skywave Linux is an image of Ubuntu with the mate desktop and i3 window
manager, whatever that is.
Here's what it reads on that page about that:
"Skywave Linux is a 64 bit system, built on a base of
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,
uses the MATE Desktop and i3 Window Manager. It is the additional digital
signal processing, networking, and signal decoding applications that set Skywave
Linux apart from its original base software."
When I installed onto a thumb drive, I got as far as getting espeak to say
something, but spd-say hasn't worked.
This is on a VmWare session.
I've done apt update and apt install gnome-orca and apt install
speech-dispatcher and apt install alsa-base pulseaudio and apt install speakup.
Of course I used sudo and I did them successively, when I couldn't get
anything else to work, I would try one, and test for TTS, and then try the
next, and so on.
The command speaker-test -c 2
does give me the white sound, so I know that the speakers aren't muted.
Also,
I'm wondering if this distro has removed a repository that might be needed for
my installs.
When I was doing all this on the thumb drive, I was able to SSH into it from my
Raspberry PI and I heard it reading out something about some things not in this
repository.
Would it be a bad idea to add a main repository where all the packages I need
to get it talking are located?
If there is a chance, what is the repository where I can get either all that
Orca needs, or regular Ubuntu packages?
Since I'm doing all this without feedback, I am hoping it won't be too long a
command for the repository.
The VmWare install so far has not opened itself to SSH, so that is why I have
to do this without speech output.
I've done the sudo add-apt-repository command in the past, so I'm somewhat
familiar with adding a repository.
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