On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote:
I'm new to Debian. Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k.Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager) a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without ever having used it.Now the audio does not work. Neither in the browser (iceweasel) nor with VLC media player.Is there a straight-forward "restore" function for the relevant software? William
Yes. You can switch to root, purge then reinstall the sound package (pulseaudio). However, I'd first recommend making sure the output volume wasn't simply turned down.
If it wasn't, I'd then suspect that pocketsphinx didn't restore the old settings when you removed it. Try running LC_ALL=C.