espeak didn't work for me until I added myself to the audio group.
My audio application involves a Bash script controlling a Zoom model 3095 USB modem. It announces who is calling on my land line.

http://mainstreetanswers.org/zoom_3095.php

This post needs an answer. The files in /usr/share/keyrings/ are prefaced with 'ubuntu' vs 'raspbian' which is why they aren't found. Should these files be renamed with the 'raspbian' prefix?

cinetron said: I'm thinking of building a PI based telephone answering machine to cut my teeth on the Raspberry PI. Thinking of using a USB based voice modem and something like vgetty . Does anyone have any advice on this such as recommendations of a voice modem that would work. Thanks If you have ...

I've done the rpi-update thing rpi-update does not update all the packages only the firmware. The file is a shell script which you can view with less `which rpi-update` (Those marks are back-ticks, not single quotes) try sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade...

penguintutor wrote:how many people manage a system where multiple users are connected via a terminal / command shell session these days?

Actually quite a few. Since one of the goals of the Raspberry Pi Foundation is to get them into classrooms, I could see a case where an entire school could be logged into one Pi.

pocster wrote:Thanks for that !
Is there no way to copy the file from the raspberry pi back to the mac via the raspberry ??? - might be simpler ))

Can't you SSH to/from your mac?

With over a million Pis in the wild it's time to stop all discussion about making any hardware changes. Learn the Coca Cola recipe lesson!

I run most of my Pis headless. A wi-fi dongle is cheap and the micro ones like the Realtek 8188CUS are tiny. SSH and VNC give you all the connectivity you need with only the power cord connected to the Pi. If you need hdmi video then use x2x from any other computer (even another Pi). There are plent...

Try

Also the line to change is
hdmi_drive=
not
hdmi_driver=

[quote="properphatboy"]Tried adding to the config.txt but nothing's changed. Just tried updating and upgrading again and here's the output: You need to do both upgrade and dist-upgrade. If you've set gpu_mem_512=16, or whatever, after reboot you will get $ free -m Total Used Free 486 57 428 $

You can stop screen blanking by entering the three commands. You may have to apt-get install x11-xserver-utils to get xset xset s off # don't activate screensaver xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features. xset s noblank # don't blank the video device in a terminal started in the X-Windows se...

Actually, we don't always form plurals by adding an s.
1 mouse, 2 mice
1 moose, 2 moose
1 spy, 2 spies
so we can make up any rule we want.
I suggest:
1 raspberry pi, 2 raspberry pys

Diameter of a circle is 2 Pi R so obviously the Plural of Pi is Pi. So say I and so said Archimedes.