Re: compiling speech-dispatcher with support to ibmtts
Hi, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote: > Since libibmeci is an ELF 32-bit, I believe that the conftest program > can not be linked with this library, unless it is generated as an ELF > 32-bit. > Yes. And sd_ibmtts dependes on two other libraries (libsdaudio from speech dispatcher and dotconf). Usually I build the speech-dispatcher-ibmtts package on a 32 bits machine and uses it as is for 64 bits. A solution for building speech-dispatcher and the ibmtts module locally on your 64 bits machine, would be in three steps: * build speech-dispatcher for 64 bits without ibmtts support and installs it as is. * then build speech-dispatcher with ibmtts support for 32 bits using the -m32 compilation flag. * And finally install the 32 bits sd_ibmtts module in the speech-dispatcher tree. This script does this: http://soft.oralux.net/speech-dispatcher/install_ibmtts_64/ Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: speech-dispatcher and libao
jose vilmar estacio de souza a écrit : > I'm trying to run speech-dispatcher configure to use libao in my karmic box. > I am receiving the following error: > libao ERROR: error opening libao dev > The 32 bits libao2 library can not be used as is under Ubuntu and probably other distributions. This is due to an uncompatible path as described in Bug #227475. The libao2 package included in voxin 0.26 fixes this, but the fix could not be the solution followed by distro. The details are in launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/227475 Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: problems when using orca with ibmtts
jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote: > 2. The punctuation is not read correctly. Sorry this issue has already been reported a while ago and not yet fixed. Hopefully, I will post a fix for this before 8th december. Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: karmic and voxin
Hello, Just to let you know that work will start on Voxin + karmic (32 / 64bits) this week end. Hopefully, the new release (0.25) will come before the end of October. Best regards, Gilles Bill Cox a écrit : > I'm trying to get voxin working in karmic beta x64 under VirtualBox. > I can get the 'say' program working without error. However, I've > failed so far to get it working with either speech-dispatcher or Gnome > Speech services. To install, I used the voxin-update-0.24 program. I > had to modify voxin-installer.sh to include 9.10 in a case statement, > but then the install runs. However, Orca does not show ibmtts as an > option when using SD, and it doesn't show IBM ViaVoice when using > Gnome Speech Services. What steps did you use to install Voxin? > > Also, I didn't have any luck removing pulseaudio. All it did was fry my > sound. > > Thanks, > Bill > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:34 PM, jose vilmar estacio de souza > wrote: >> I tried to run on my 64 bits installation without success. >> My machine froze completely. >> >> On 09/27/2009 08:22 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:53:32AM EST, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote: >>> Anyone running voxin in karmic? >>> I tried running it last week for some testing, and it worked without issue >>> on i386. >>> >>> Luke >>> >>> >> -- >> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >> Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility >> > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: natural voices
Hi Josh, Some info are available in the Orca wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechSynthesisEngines Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa
Luke Yelavich wrote: > > More testing needs to be done, however I have less than two weeks to make a > final decision. Yes, Luke, two weeks seem quite short. Hopefully, in the future several specs will appear in Launchpad or elsewhere for focusing on PulseAudio and Accessibility: tuning the PulseAudio extension in speech dispatcher or eSpeak, kernel configuration and real time audio policy, speech at login, speech and multi-users. All this needs a consistent effort from developers and distributions. Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > There is a chance that users will not be running > PulseAudio in their user session, and there is also a mode on the live CD > where the installer will be usable with accessibility, without the entire > desktop loaded, i.e the CD boots straight into the GUI installer. In these > instances, espeak built against pulseaudio only is just about useless. > The issue with the padsp wrapper is the frightening number of layers: portaudio + oss + padsp + pulseaudio + alsa. eSpeak could also become configurable for choosing the audio output, or Ubuntu could provide two packages espeak using portaudio and espeak-pulse using pulseaudio. Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa
Luke Yelavich wrote: > > We have less than 2 weeks for feature freeze, and I need to have all of this > stuff sorted before then, so we can then do testing and bug fixing. > The pulseaudio extension for espeak works but has not yet been tested by real users: so some bugs can appear or they can consider its reactiveness as not acceptable. The latency can be tuned in modifying some of the internal parameters of the extension (pulse.cpp) and recompiling espeak. The extension has been tested up to now using PulseAudio 0.9.6. In case of bugs in the extension, I will be glad to possibly fix them. Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa
> I intend to do some testing over the coming days with this option, as well > as wrapping espeak using PortAudio v18 in the padsp utility, which makes > use of PulseAudio directly. Hi Luke, Two points: Today the best speech reactiveness is probably obtained using speech-dispatcher/alsa + espeak. If Hardy will use gnome-speech and PulseAudio, you may want to check eSpeak with its new PulseAudio support. In eSpeak 1.31, a special Makefile exists for using the PulseAudio extension. All this is a little bit in beta stage, so it will be better than users who are looking for a solution which just works, wait a little bit. Best regards, Gilles -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: ESpeak and other sound with Ubuntu 7.04
Hi David, Did you install the development version of portaudio 19. Otherwise another alternative is to choose the speech-dispatcher backend with the very recent eSpeak driver. I believe that the audio output is based on aplay and so will work on your desktop. Just a note, installing a new release of eSpeak can be more direct, as root under src, just type: make install Yes, if the espeak-data directory exists under your home directory, it might be removed. Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: can't set up the build environment for Orca on Ubuntu
Mohammed Al-shar' wrote: > anyway, my problem is when I issue "sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-orca" it > tells me: > e: could not open file > /var/lib/apt/lists/jo.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_universe_fource_Fources > >- open (2 no such file or directory) > I would check the hard disk partition, it is perhaps full. For example, you may type in a console: df -kh /var If it is ok, I would trace the systems calls for getting a more detailled error message. For example as root: strace -o /tmp/log apt-get build-dep gnome-orca The resulting file, /tmp/log, is quite verbose, but hopefully a more explicit error message might be found around the end of the file. If you send the log file to me, I will try to look at it. Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux.org http://association.oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Orca Urgent: Restoring Ubuntu?
Hermann writes: > yesterday I upgraded Espeak. After completion Orca didn't speak correctly > anymore: Words or parts of words were not spoken. This post is also copied to the Ubuntu list. In eSpeak 1.18, the installed command line is named espeak instead of speak. So if you are using Speech Dispatcher, the related configuration file might be updated accordingly. Besides it, feedback on the gnome-speech driver for eSpeak is welcomed :-). Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)
Hello, Joanmarie Diggs writes: > While there are lots of voices listed both in test-speech and in Orca, I > seem to be limited to just one. I see them all > in /usr/share/espeak-data/voices. How do I use them? > Sorry, this issue is fixed in release r268 of gnome-speech; thanks to Willie for his responsiveness. In principle, the numerous eSpeak languages are available now :-). Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)
Hello, Al Puzzuoli writes: > Is there a parameter that needs to be passed to the autogen script to cause > the Espeak driver to be built, or should the presence of Espeak be > autodetected by gnome-speech? > In principle, espeak might be auto-detected. If the libespeak is not yet known by the system, running ldconfig as root might help. Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
eSpeak extension
Hello, The archive below includes three file: .asoundrc, libaudiostub and espeak-extension. I supply these files as is, (draft stage) for illustrating the use of an external audio lib (libaudiostub) and asynchronous calls using eSpeak. If you are interested in trying this code, the URL is: http://oralux.org/tmp/eSpeak/espeak-extension-1.0.tgz * firstly install libasound2-dev, eSpeak and its lib_speak.h API. * compile and install libaudiostub. * Then compile and run the test program in espeak-extension. More details follow. It is easier for an application to rely on a TTS which already manages audio output. Unfortunately, these features are sometimes not the ones expected (for example, no Alsa compatibility, no stereo under OSS). I am currently working on an eSpeak speech driver for Emacspeak, I do not forget the forthcoming gnome speech driver since there was a consensus about it at Ubuntu Accessibility. TV Raman (Emaspeak author) uses either ALSA or OSS for his IBM Viavoice speech drivers. With the ALSA driver, a .asoundrc file must be available in the user environment (under $HOME). This speech driver is appreciated. I have tried to factorize/group the OSS or ALSA commands from the Emacspeak Viavoice drivers in a single library (named libaudiostub). If you are aware of an already existing lib compliant with Alsa/OSS, thank you to let me know. My actual eSpeak driver relies on this static library. Just a note: for an unknown reason :-), libaudiostub works as a static lib and fails as a shared library (impossible to set hardware parameters for ALSA). The eSpeak speech driver needs asynchronous calls: an upper layer is added above lib_speak.h for adding these features. There are implemented in the file named libtclespeak/espeak.cpp . I supply to this upper layer the ssml fragments using the say method. I expect that if two consecutive say methods are called, the two consecutive ssml fragments will be said. Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Languages and Speech synthesis
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > It would be good to have download information, and also details on > what sort of tweaks are required. The Upstream URLs and related packages info have been added at the end of the wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/doc/LanguagesAndSpeechSynthesis Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Languages and Speech synthesis
Hi Benjamin, Thank you for the notice, I will add the related URLs this week. The "tweaks required" is rather generic and hopefully urticant :-). It would be great that some of the mentioned TTS could work out of the box instead. The MultilingualSpeechSynthesis spec, once implemented, can lead to this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MultilingualSpeechSynthesis?highlight=%28multilingual%29 Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Languages and Speech synthesis
Hello, This new wiki page lists some of the possible TTS in GNU/Linux according to the language: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/doc/LanguagesAndSpeechSynthesis#preview There are probably mistakes, lacks,... ok, this is a wiki page :-). I hope that this list will help a little bit the multilanguages integration in Ubuntu and Debian. Cheers, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?
Just for the notice, Speakup at the moment works with 8 bits charsets (not UTF-8). The next speechd-up release (greater than 0.3) might be compliant with non-ascii charsets (e.g. 8859-1 for pt-br). Cheers, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?
Hello Cleverson, >From my side, this is the first time I meet such a TTS: fully free (GPL) and where new languages can be added relatively easily. As far as I know, Orca may currently use eSpeak through speech-dispatcher. By default in Ubuntu, Orca relies on gnome-speech rather than speech-dispatcher. I guess that gnome-speech has no eSpeak driver at the moment. So the user currently has to tweak a little bit his system for using eSpeak. In principle, another solution could be also an eSpeak speech server from Emacspeak :-). Cheers, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Oralux repository
Hello Henrik, Thank you for your answer. This repository can help for example to install Multispeech as offered in the Oralux CD. The package is named multispeech-oralux . Multispeech is the multilingual speech server for Emacspeak written by Igor B. Poretsky. This speech server requires Emacspeak 24 offered in Debian testing: http://packages.debian.org/testing/editors/emacspeak Igor originally proposed an automatic Russian/English detection embedded in Multispeech itself. This feature is not offered with the others languages. Our language switching support for Emacspeak using Multispeech or IBM TTS is quite basic at the moment: the user holds a function key for switching to the next language. We hope if time allows to associate a language by buffer. If I remember well speechd-el proposes already this feature. I realize once more how the accessibility technologies are varied, and this is good for the users. It would be also quite interesting to be able to take in account the lang attribute when reading a web page. I guess that these features have their analogy in Orca or LSR. Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Oralux repository
Hello, The Oralux repository is under construction: it currently includes around 30 new packages. This repository includes the MBROLA packages which are proprietary and can not be included in a commercial project without permissions (the license is much more detailled of course). Before including these packages in Oralux, we contacted Dr Thierry Dutoit and the other copyright holders for the MBROLA databases. If possible, the best would be that some of our packages migrate to the repository of major distributions. It might ease for example the multispeech installation and its six related languages. These packages are compliant with a Debian testing (Knoppix 5.0.1 in fact). Igor B. Poretsky kindly proposed his Debian packages (particularly for mbrola). Another source could have been the Brlspeak project since Sebastien François built some of these packages. Lukas Loehrer kindly proposes his eflite/flite packages compliant with ALSA. He also helped to improve some of my multipeech packages. The current Oralux repository is available with these lines in the sources.list file: deb http://oralux.net/packages unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://oralux.net/packages unstable main non-free contrib Best regards, Gilles -- Oralux http://oralux.org -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
