<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 11.00.9600.19597"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi All,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hoping you can help me get this talking.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I downloaded a version of Ubuntu Mate with SDR software preinstalled, along with Internet radio stuff.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It looks like it should work well for the Nooelec SDR dongle I just got.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It's called Skywave Linux.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Anyway, I have not been able to get Orca or Speakup working on this reliably.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In the terminal I can get the audio test white noise, which I have had to do constantly to be sure I have a ready prompt.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have tried installing everything I can think of without speech, in the terminal, like pulseaudio, speech-dispatcher, espeakup , and I even purged and reinstalled alsa-base pulseaudio.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At one point, I had espeakup talking, and then I installed gnome-orca and that sort of talked but when I tried to shut down, it would not shut down normally, like it froze, I couldn't tell without speech, so I had to do a hard shutdown and when I called it back up, it was like it was originally, I can do the speaker-test, but nothing else.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This is on the live image I burned to USB with a persistence file.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It's Ubuntu Mate 16.10 64 bit version.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Here's the site:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A href="https://skywavelinux.com/">https://skywavelinux.com/</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hope someone has some ideas.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Glenn</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>