On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 09:56:52AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> espeak or espeak-ng commands are not installed. That's easy to fix, but I
> don't think it's necessary for this purpose. Also, it might get weird if the
> system is reading stuff from the screen at the same time it's speaking from
> a script.

Agreed. I didn't realize the scripts restart espeakup and alsa, and
those do indeed produce output. I managed to play with this a bit. On
my multi card desktop, I couldn't get speech, so switched this morning
to my old single sound card laptop. I discovered that when booting
with the first boot option, I'm already logged in as devuan on tty1,
and that running both scripts as devuan fails. This explains why I
didn't get speech on the desktop; I was assuming I need to login as
root/toor, and did that followed by running both scripts which didn't
work. The scripts do work fine on the laptop once I use su, so I'll
try on the desktop when I can reboot it.

> The two scripts could be combined, but that's a little more complex.
> Right now, set-card will let you use the name or number of the card for
> /etc/default/espeakup, but set-default-card will only take a number for
> asound.conf. I don't want to lose the ability to use a name, because you
> might know you want to use a particular card, but you don't know what number
> it will be. I've seen the devices come up in different order, especially if
> there's a usb audio device involved.

I agree that keeping set-card and set-default-card separated is the
right thing to do.

>
> I have a better set-card that you can run multiple times in a row. It looks
> like this.

I'll try it once I get a chance to boot into the environment again.

I also noticed on the laptop that my pen drive got detected a second
time, which
caused squashfs to not be able to access blocks, and giving i/o
errors. I'll have to see if I get the same thing on the desktop, and
if I can reproduce it on the laptop using both the same, and another
pen drive. If I can reproduce it, I'll try to figure out what's going
on.

Greg


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