Re: Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
Hi, Regarding https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2017/01/msg00105.html Last night I upgraded my Debian 8 to stretch via apt-get dist-upgrade and still there is no speech in orca. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks, Paul _ Paul (Pawel) Loba Specialist, Assistive Technology, ADP Authorizer, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Ontario Regional Assessment Centre 1929 Bayview Ave. Toronto, On M4G 3E8 paul.l...@vlrehab.ca T: (416) 486-2500 ext. 8234 F: (416) 480-7699 Privacy Disclaimer - Fran?ais ? suivre This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. --- D?claration de confidentialit? Le pr?sent courrier ?lectronique (y compris les pi?ces qui y sont annex?es, le cas ?ch?ant) s'adresse au destinataire indiqu? et peut contenir des renseignements de caract?re priv? ou confidentiel. Si vous n'?tes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a ?t? transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'exp?diteur et le supprimer imm?diatement.
Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
Hello, Luke Yelavich, on Mon 23 Jan 2017 20:16:15 +1100, wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:37:05PM AEDT, Colomban Wendling wrote: > > Le 22/01/2017 à 19:02, am_d...@fastmail.fm a écrit : > > > […] > > > I did find a solution to my problem. In the > > > Orca preferences by changing the option from default speech synthesizer > > > to espeak-ng on the Voice tab things work properly. I think that for > > > some reason, on my hardware, no speech synthesizer is selected by > > > default. Can you reproduce this with a fresh install on your hardware? > > > > I had the same issue on my Sid install after upgrading speech-dispatcher > > (or espeak?) to the version that brought espeak-ng. I did the same, > > selecting the engine manually, but there definitely seem to be a problem > > somewhere -- for me, at least through an upgrade path. > > Oh now you mention it, I know where that problem lies. I'll put a fix into > the packaging for Debian and get a Debian Dev to upload. The fix is now uploaded. Thanks for the report and the fix :) Samuel
Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:37:05PM AEDT, Colomban Wendling wrote: > Le 22/01/2017 à 19:02, am_d...@fastmail.fm a écrit : > > […] > > I did find a solution to my problem. In the > > Orca preferences by changing the option from default speech synthesizer > > to espeak-ng on the Voice tab things work properly. I think that for > > some reason, on my hardware, no speech synthesizer is selected by > > default. Can you reproduce this with a fresh install on your hardware? > > I had the same issue on my Sid install after upgrading speech-dispatcher > (or espeak?) to the version that brought espeak-ng. I did the same, > selecting the engine manually, but there definitely seem to be a problem > somewhere -- for me, at least through an upgrade path. Oh now you mention it, I know where that problem lies. I'll put a fix into the packaging for Debian and get a Debian Dev to upload. Luke
Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
Le 22/01/2017 à 19:02, am_d...@fastmail.fm a écrit : > […] > I did find a solution to my problem. In the > Orca preferences by changing the option from default speech synthesizer > to espeak-ng on the Voice tab things work properly. I think that for > some reason, on my hardware, no speech synthesizer is selected by > default. Can you reproduce this with a fresh install on your hardware? I had the same issue on my Sid install after upgrading speech-dispatcher (or espeak?) to the version that brought espeak-ng. I did the same, selecting the engine manually, but there definitely seem to be a problem somewhere -- for me, at least through an upgrade path. Regards, Colomban
Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017, at 11:47 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > am_d...@fastmail.fm, on Sun 22 Jan 2017 11:22:54 -0500, wrote: > > In the Stretch install, the HDMI sound device was selected as the > > default device in the Mate Control Panel on both laptops. > > Mmm, I'm afraid it might be the same kind of issue as I had. > > I've put in /etc/modprobe.d/perso.conf this: > > options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 > > which exchanges the two cards, so HDMI comes second. Otherwise I don't > get any output through pulseaudio. > > Samuel Hello, Thanks for your suggestions. I tried that and it didn't turn out to be the problem, however, it did prevent me from having to change hdmi to internal speakers and listed the speakers as the first device in sound prefs so it is a great help. I did find a solution to my problem. In the Orca preferences by changing the option from default speech synthesizer to espeak-ng on the Voice tab things work properly. I think that for some reason, on my hardware, no speech synthesizer is selected by default. Can you reproduce this with a fresh install on your hardware? Thanks.
Re: No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
Hello, am_d...@fastmail.fm, on Sun 22 Jan 2017 11:22:54 -0500, wrote: > In the Stretch install, the HDMI sound device was selected as the > default device in the Mate Control Panel on both laptops. Mmm, I'm afraid it might be the same kind of issue as I had. I've put in /etc/modprobe.d/perso.conf this: options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 which exchanges the two cards, so HDMI comes second. Otherwise I don't get any output through pulseaudio. Samuel
No sound From Orca after a Strech Install
Hello, I recently installed Stretch on two test laptops (both amd) and had no speech from Orca after install, however, braille does work fine with Orca and in the console and Speakup talks fine as well. I used the non-free rc1 image because the wireless cards in both machines require firmware. One thing worth noting is that speakup stopped talking at different points of both installations and I had to finish the installs using only braille. During the first install, speakup crashed at the detecting networking hardware step and in the second install, it crashed when starting the partitioner. On both machines. With Debian stable, speech from Orca works correctly so I guess this is a regression from the previous release of Debian. Speakup also does not crash when installing Debian stable on these machines. In the Stretch install, the HDMI sound device was selected as the default device in the Mate Control Panel on both laptops. After changing this to my internal sound card using braille, I was able to record and play sound as well as use other applications like espeak from the Mate Terminal and I heard sound through my speakers, however, I could not get orca to talk. I tried some troubleshooting steps without success to fix this issue. 1. I first tried using spd-say to play speech using speech dispatcher directly and that did not work. 2. I tried restarting the Pulseaudio process as well as the computer. Another thing that I tried was deleting the ~/.config/pulse folder. 3. I tried running spd-conf and I got an error when running this so as a workaround, I copied /etc/speech-dispatcher to ~/.config/speech-dispatcher. After this, I changed the default audio device from pulse to libao in speechd.conf and restarted the speech dispatcher process and the computer and still could not get sound to work. I am at a loss now of other things to try and was wondering if anyone else has had these issues. I have a laptop that is Intel that is available for testing so will try that later today. The two laptops that I tried were both HP pavilions. One had an AMD processor from the 15h series, the other had a 16h series processor. The laptop I will use for testing this afternoon has a core 2 duo processor. Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
