Re: Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Willem van der Walt
Hi, Hart mentioned my program called dae (short for digital audio editor), so I will try and explain to what extent it might do Martin's job. If you convert your 8-bit raw audio into a wav file using sox or similar, you can use dae on it. Dae will start playing the file when it is loaded and, w

Re: debian wifi failure

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't think that package will be found on stock debian disks but I could be wrong. I'll have to make sure my debuan is up to date and try this one. On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Joel Roth wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:58:58 From: Joel Roth To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: debian wifi fai

Re: debian wifi failure

2016-07-11 Thread Joel Roth
Jude DaShiell wrote: > The debian web page on how to use wifi is useless. Has anyone here got > experience setting up a workable version of /etc/network/interfaces? I can > probably put mine up on this list if it will help. I've been experimenting with simple-netaid, a command-line utility for

Re: Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Joel" == Joel Roth writes: Joel> Hi Martin, >> From what you write, I think you want to extract interesting Joel> parts of an audio file to another audio file, although you Joel> could mean extracting parts of an audio *stream* to a file. Joel> Nama (which uses ecasoun

Re: Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
vlc has a pause function that works and even a get-time function that works too. Could use of a digital recorder attached to aux on sound card along with vlc at least get a clip recorded? On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Hart Larry wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:01:46 From: Hart Larry Reply-To: Linux

Re: debian wifi failure

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much Sam, There were some things missing in /etc/network/interfaces and now I have a talkingarch instance running I'll get the debian-gnome netinst disk and try this using debian-gnome. It'll be hard on the 1GB of ram available but only temporarily. I want to see what actually gets p

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Time for some alsa bug reporting! On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Chris Brannon wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:43:31 From: Chris Brannon Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros Jude Da

Re: Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Martin, >From what you write, I think you want to extract interesting parts of an audio file to another audio file, although you could mean extracting parts of an audio *stream* to a file. I looked at ecasound. I came up with a plan, but I think it won't work because I don't see an easy way to

Re: debian wifi failure

2016-07-11 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jude" == Jude DaShiell writes: Jude> The debian web page on how to use wifi is useless. Has anyone Jude> here got experience setting up a workable version of Jude> /etc/network/interfaces? I can probably put mine up on this Jude> list if it will help. This is a case wher

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Chris Brannon
Jude DaShiell writes: > Can you loose the -ng fork and try a build with generic espeak and > verify identical alsa issues with the non-fork version of espeak? > That would for sure point at defective alsa code. Well, the original espeak does not interface directly with alsa. It uses portaudio.

Re: Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Martin Hart Larry writes: > Well Martin, I had written folks at m player, asking about creating an > editor. I essentially received a nasty gram, telling me mplayer is a > player. I myself would love to have an mp3 editor

Re: Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Hart Larry
Well Martin, I had written folks at m player, asking about creating an editor. I essentially received a nasty gram, telling me mplayer is a player. I myself would love to have an mp3 editor which would work like an editor "nano" but would edit sound. But so-far any scripts which some1 in our LUG

Editing Sound on the Fly

2016-07-11 Thread Martin McCormick
I am always looking for the easiest way to do things but am also aware of that quotation which goes "The lazy man works the hardest." I want to play a file which is usually 8-bit audio at a sampling rate of 8000 samples per second, sometimes called raw 8-bit audio. If I hear someth

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
The package is in alpha so not ready for you to handle yet, probably early alpha too. On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Al Sten-Clanton wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:33:21 From: Al Sten-Clanton Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: for those

debian wifi failure

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
The debian web page on how to use wifi is useless. Has anyone here got experience setting up a workable version of /etc/network/interfaces? I can probably put mine up on this list if it will help. -- ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redha

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
For a test of espeak-ng with alsa built into it cleanly, a system would have to be completely innocent of pulseaudio. If that was the case then test quality was high. On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Mark Peveto wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:51:26 From: Mark Peveto Reply-To: Linux for blind general

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you loose the -ng fork and try a build with generic espeak and verify identical alsa issues with the non-fork version of espeak? That would for sure point at defective alsa code. On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Chris Brannon wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:31:13 From: Chris Brannon Reply-To: Linu

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Mark Peveto
>From what I understand, it's just being developed. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from sonar using alpine 2.20.13 On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Al Sten-Clanton wrote: > Never heard of fenrir. Do you know where the info about it is? Thanks! > > Al > > > On 7/11/2016 2:27 AM, Jud

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Al Sten-Clanton
Never heard of fenrir. Do you know where the info about it is? Thanks! Al On 7/11/2016 2:27 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: pulseaudio is responsible for blocking signals that rightfully alsa ought to get. This is why fenrir will be the official console speech app for sonar. It wasn't possible to

Re: for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

2016-07-11 Thread Chris Brannon
Jude DaShiell writes: > pulseaudio is responsible for blocking signals that rightfully alsa > ought to get. Yes, but I also built espeak-ng's audio library without pulseaudio support, with the same result. So at this point, I'm going on the assumption that there are issues with the ALSA code as