Hi! I have it installed here but i don't understand how it should be integrated in to voiceover so that it could work as a good voiceover voice. I guess one has to be a programmer to do the trick. /A 23 aug 2014 kl. 06:37 skrev 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>:
> I tried downloading the OSX version of eSpeak but wasn't able to get very far > with it. Of course I've never used the tool before. I downloaded it from here: > > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html > > but when I typed > > ./speak "The quick brown fox" > > it gave the error: > > Can't read data file: '/usr/share/espeak-data/phontab' > > I didn't have time to fiddle much more and figure out what files were > supposed to live in that path. > > CB > > On 8/2/14, 1:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> The developers have never been very open to the idea, but I think that's >> mostly because the Mac API for making a voice is complex. I've given it a >> try, a couple times, and didn't get far because I don't know enough about >> the mechanics of speech synthesis. >> On Aug 2, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> I've been wondering that since i got my mac and never got any answer on >>> that. >>> Very disappointing. >>> /A >>> 2 aug 2014 kl. 18:53 skrev Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com>: >>> >>>> Hi all. As a long-time user of both Windows and the mac, I keep wondering >>>> why eSpeak hasn't been ported to work with voiceover and the mac speech >>>> API. If Eloquence can be ported, why on earth can't eSpeak, being open >>>> source and a native linux program, be ported? Is Eloquence just that good, >>>> and mac users so into windows that Eloquence, a native windows app, just >>>> has to b ported, in a rather weird form with only one voice and a few >>>> weird bugs, rather than eSpeak, with its many languages, amazing >>>> pronounciation and configurability? And I don't want just a "type text and >>>> push that there play button and hear it talk" little toy app. I want it to >>>> be selectable in the VO speech pane of the utility, as a system voice, and >>>> usable in the say fuction of the terminal. Is that really, really too >>>> much to ask for of an open source program? If so, then open source is just >>>> as unreliable as regular freeware. >>>> -- >>>> Sent from Thunderbird using iCloud >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
