That’s good. When I had a Pi 3, things were very slow in Mate. Of course, with
GTK, ATSPI, and all kinds of other fluff, and accessibility stuff slowing
things down generally, it wasn’t a great experience. On a Pi 4 though, things
are faster. There is a delay when pressing a key and getting feedback, for some
reason, probably the code isn’t optimized at all for this, but it works. I
still mainly use the Pi for the command line, because at least there things are
usable. I just need to figure out how to switch Fenrir from RH Voice to ESpeak
because it turns out that robotic sounding voices that try to be human are
worse when dealing with technical and… pretty much everything than robotic
sounding voices with good pronunciation rules. Everyone should check out
Mycroft and its speech. Lol, when it says “ock” instead of “okay…”
Anyways, I’ll post my adventures with my Pi later on.
On Mar 31, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Jessica <jelynnar.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all. As I had nothing much else to do. I thought I would try to get orca
working again via pranav's excellent guide at
http://techesoterica.com
Or something like that.
In anything. Everything installed just fine.
Braille display came up just fine.
That's all good.
What is even more good is when I exited out I got my speech back in the
console.
So progress!
Bad news. Still no audio in mate desktop for speech synthesizer.
Not going to mess around with it anymore today. But at least my sound didn't
die this time.
So progress! Yay! It is doable somehow.
As for what usb sound card to use. I don't know. I just bought one off
amazon and made sure it worked with linux.
In any case. That's all for me now for several days.
But still getting this far without breaking my sound speech synthesis
permanently is amazing and means some progress somewhere is being made.
Jessica
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