Jonathan, I have had desktop working for some time but tts is still flaky because of the sound-driver issues.
I am working on some code which will convert espeak to render audio directly on the GPU and stabilize things and prevent kernel oops crashes. I have not taken desktop development any further until this is fixed because flaky tts with either alsa or speech-dispatcher using pulse will bring the thing crashing into a heap. It just isn't stable using the Broadcom sound driver. Mike On 08/07/2014 19:54, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: > Thanks Charles, > > Yes I've been busy to say the least. One thing that is exciting is that > we now have an accessible image for the raspberry pi using the Mate > desktop based off of > Arch. I know Mike has een working on something like this for a while so > if he wants to compare notes we can let him know what we did to get it > running. We should have this image up for download on the Sonar website > next week. Also the final release of Sonar should be out next week. > > > On 07/08/2014 02:06 PM, Mike Ray wrote: >> Like I said...my mistake. I was possibly not paying enough attention to >> every minute of a two hour show. >> >> >> >> On 08/07/2014 18:13, Charles Thayer wrote: >>> The comment that seems to have started all of this was an off-hand remark >>> to the effect that Orca is "something that Jonathan Nadeau has been working >>> on." I think the comment referred to the fundraising effort that Jonathan >>> conducted at the beginning of the year to pay for some developer hours >>> needed for bug fixes and features. >>> >>> Ahuka made this comment in the middle of a segment about the recent >>> comments about Jon Kulp's episode on Blather. Since I believe that he >>> contributed to the IndieGoGo campaign, I'm pretty sure that Ahuka did not >>> mean to imply that Jonathan was the project lead or the inventor of Orca. >>> I think he was indicating that we have a community member with an active >>> interest in that project, not that Jonathan has taken the reins for Orca. >>> I think Jonathan has enough to do to get Sonar rebased on Manjaro, and in >>> moving the new Sonar GNU/Linux beta version into production. >>> >>> >>> I do see how someone might possibly make the inference that Ahuka was >>> making that kind of suggestion. I didn't hear it on the first try myself, >>> because I was familiar with the project, with Ahuka's history of >>> contributions and statements, and (to a small degree) with Jonathan's >>> efforts in promoting accessible computing. >>> >>> It didn't hurt that we set the record straight here, so thanks to everyone >>> who has commented. >>> >>> Don't worry, Jonathan. I won't be sending Orca bug reports to you. >>> There's a perfectly good bug tracker on the project site for all of us to >>> contribute our bug reports and patches to help push the development work >>> forward. :-) >>> >>> Charles in NJ >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Jonathan Nadeau <[email protected]> >>> To: Mike Ray <[email protected]>; [email protected] >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:08 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Hpr] Orca >>> >>> >>> sorry I haven't listened to that episode yet. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 07/08/2014 09:06 AM, Mike Ray wrote: >>>> Jonathan, I was just responding to a comment in the community news >>>> podcast for June. I think I may have misunderstood the remark but it >>>> sounded like somebody was mistaken in thinking you wrote Orca. That's all. >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 08/07/2014 13:55, Jonathan Nadeau wrote: >>>>> Who in the world said i wrote Orca? I don't even know why this was >>>>> nessecery to write. I didn't see any post recently that said I wrote >>>>> Orca. What is the point of this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 07/08/2014 01:26 AM, Mike Ray wrote: >>>>>> Just a quick heads-up...Jonathan Nadau didn't write Orca. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29 >>>>>> >>>>>> Currently the project is led by Joan-Marie Diggs. >>>>>> >>>>>> Not another person who is in the habit of using the adjectives 'alpha' >>>>>> and 'stable' in the same sentence. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Hpr mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK The box said: 'install Windows XP, 7 or better'. So I installed Linux Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ >From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
