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Thanks! I got it now. Apparently I missed a lot of things, but I finally took the time to actually look properly through everything after your first message to my reply.. Not sure how I missed it in the first place. lol. Seems really obvious.
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Just following up on my experiment to keep the Screen Reader on one sound card and the main Kodi on another. Works well. For the record I also installed mpg123 as a plugin for kodi on Openelec with some minimal changes. My only issue I ahve so far though is when playing speech via the usb sound card it always seems clipped a the end.. where as playing it via the internal sound card it does not. Weird. I will investigate further because the WeTek Play is a bit of an exotic beast. But I did want to say to everyone that if you are stuck with an ALSA build of Kodi and find the Screen reader locks up playing video then have a stab at doing what I did and use a separate sound card for speech.
Once again thanks Ruuk. it is a very nice and usable plugin if only openelec would install mplayer by default then I feel sure most of my headaches would be solved.
Cheers,
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I just bought a Fire TV Stick and installed Kodi on it, it works great but unfortunately the screen reader doesn't work at all. Is there a way to get a speech engine onto a Fire TV Stick? I am not seeing one in the config window so I'm assuming the problem is that Kodi can't find a speech engine or it doesn't have access to Google's TTS. From what I read earlier there's an issue with Android needing mpg123 or something? Is there a way to side load that? Thanks!
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Hi!
I'm not sure if it is a bug, but I will try to describe the issue, as far as my english allows. :-)
In Kodi 14, I could open the information screen for a movie and see all the details in it. What I often used was the cast information, so that I knew, what actor played what role. It seams that this does no longer work in Kodi 15.
When I open the movie information for let's say, "Melancholia" and activate the "Cast" button, (I don't know what this button is called in english because my Installation is set to german, it is the butten next to the "Play" button). On the screen I see the List of Actors. On the screen I can see "Kirsten Dunst as Justine", but the Kodi Screen reader just reads "Kirsten Dunst".
Told you my english is not very good. :-)
I don't think that it is supposed to be like this. It worked in Kodi 14 just fine. Is there something I can do, maybe a setting or something like that?
Regards!
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Hi I have just downloaded the screen reader on a digital media box attached to the TV, but I haven't been able to work out how to launch it or make it work. Does anyone have any ideas? All the other posts or recommendations I have read, relate to a screen reader on the computer not a digital media box on a TV.
So here it is. 
