Hi Jean_claude,
Thanks for the email, that's handy to know about the headphone jak, someone
did say to me about Jessey so that's the one I was hoping to use, I only
tried Wheezy on the off chance that worked, but no joy there either
unfortunately. I've actually tried the PI attached to my TV via a HTMI
cable, but still no speech and a sighted friend said there wasn't anything
like a log on showing on the screen. It sounds like from another member
that' it's an issue with the 3b model not being compatible with the
download from the Raspberry VI download site.
Thanks for the help though, all still stuff that will help when I do get it
up and running.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Provost
Sent: 17 August 2016 21:23
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: help setting up my first PI with speech
Hi,
I'm a newbi as well but I just endeavored the very same thing with
success 2 days ago so I'll take a stab at giving you things you may want
to verify... Quite a few things could go wrong at either the software
or the hardware level. I actually have a B+ so, hopefully it won't be
too too different from yours.
Hardware:
the audio jack is not a standard 1/8 stereo (TRS) jack like you might
think. It is a TRRS jack, because it contains audio left, audio right &
video composite... I got a cable with that kind of jack at one end & 3
wires with RCA jacksat the other end. I don't know what happens when you
don't use that kind of cable but, this might be a cause of your problem.
Software:
do you have an HDMI where you can send the Raspberry output to... If Do
you have access to a sightling? Because if the login screen can be
seen, that will illiminate a few variables.
If your image is at fault, make sure you created it properly. Copying
the .img file with Windows will not float the boat. You need to use a
more specialized tool. The .img files has to be extracted to the SD
card... I use Roadkill.net's Image for Windows & I had no problem
creating a usable .img file with the downloaded file from the
RaspberryVI site...
Finally, ytour were talking about Wheezy & Jessie, I was told (just 2
days ago) by a knowledgeable fellow on this list to use Jessie as it was
the newer version of the Debian environment... So at the risk of stating
the obvious, you only want to put this one .img file on your SD card...
That should get you started & some more knowledgeable folks will
probably be able to chip in if you require more assistance...
Cheers & good luck.
Jean-Claude Provost
On 8/17/2016 4:08 PM, Paul Lemm (Redacted sender paul.lemm for DMARC) wrote:
Hi,Foundation.
So I wanted to set up my first PI so it is ready loaded with speech. I've
downloaded both the Raspbian Wheezy and the Raspbian Jessie from the
Raspberry VI downloads page, both say they have console speech, I've then
written the image to the SD card but when I turn on the raspberry PI I
don't get any speech, I've tried with both the Wheezy and jessie, but
neither seem to work. Should it speak when the PI is turned on? Or is
there something I need to do to activate the speech? I'm using a raspberry
3b if that helps.
Any help would be much appreciated as really keen to get the PI up and
running with speech so I can have a play.
Paul
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