Currently all Raspberry Pi versions (exception zero, more about that in
a minute) will work with speech.
Raspbian has the speakup modules included and it is just a matter of
loading the speakup_soft module and installing espeakup for speakup to
work in the console.
The same is true of Arch Linux. But, note that the 64-bit version of
Arch, and any other 64-bit distro will not work with speech, or any
other sound, since there is no userland code for 64-bit. Which means
there is no vchiq.
Raspberry Pi zero, I can't even remember whether this has an analogue
audio jack. If it does, the same is true. If not, getting audio out
will be difficult, but not impossible.
On 15/08/2018 15:50, Rich Morin wrote:
I'd like to get an idea of the status of voice output in RasPi distros.
Like, which ones are thought to work on which hardware. For example,
Mike Ray indicates that the RasPi 3B now works "out of the box", but
I don't have specifics on the OS release(s) he's referring to. I'd
also like to know if the RasPi 0W can also support voice output. If
folks can send me specifics, I could edit up a wiki page...
-r
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