No speech on Fedora

[serezlan]

Hello,

I found problem running emacspeak on Fedora 34. It does not output any speech with espeak or outloud.

espeak:

• Running servers/espeak, no error message
• executing "say something" on the prompt produce nothing.

outloud:

• Running servers/outloud produce the following error

Using SoX
Found 2 languages.
allocating 65536 16 bit samples, 5.944308 seconds of audio.
19Error setting output buffer.

while executing

"load $tclTTS/atcleci.so"
(file "./outloud" line 483)

I've recompiled both native-espeak and linux-outloud successfully.

Thanks

[SETIYOSO]

Solved it.

The solution is two fold:

1. Replace pipewire with pulseaudio
2. Add required packages

• alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
• sox
• sox-devel

Btw, do not use older version emacspeak with espeak. It may not work and of course not supported.
Use newer version with espeak-ng.

[narendraj9]

I have the exact same problem. I installed
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
sox
sox-devel
and the problem still exists. How did you figure out what the problem was because there are no errors (at least in my case)?

[serezlan]

Have you replace pipewire with pluseaudio?

to troubleshoot, try with espeak-ng server first:

• Make sure your using emacspeak 53 or later
• From emacspeak directory, goto server/native-linux directory
• • run "make clean && make"
• • Fix any missing dependency problem, if any
• • Go up one level there you should find executable espeak script file.
• Execute that file and in the prompt run "say hello"
• • You should hear espeak say "hello"

You can repeat similar steps above with linux-outloud:

• Run "make clean && make" on servers/linux-outloud directory
• • Fix any dependency problem
• • Go up one directory and execute script file outloud there
• • If you're greeted with a prompt without any error, you should be good to go.
• • If not, perhaps some packages are missing.

I found clue of needed packages from emacspeak-voxin-installer script for debian

LIST_EMACSPEAK_MUST="alsa-utils libasound2-plugins libasound2-dev libespeak-dev libsox-fmt-mp3 sox tcl8.6-dev tclx8.4 libxml2-dev"

[narendraj9]

Replacing pipewire did the trick. I was interested in knowing how you guessed that pipewire is the culprit and needs to be replaced.

[serezlan]

It was in the emacspeak mailing list. One of the user tried installing arch on VM with pipewire and emacspeak failed to work.