Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gilles Casse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for the notice, Speakup at the moment works with 8 bits charsets > (not UTF-8). Just to note, eSpeak should be able to accept either UTF8 or the 8-bit character set which is appropriate for the language (eg ISO 8859-1 for English). It should be able to recognise automatically whether the text is UTF8 or the 8-bit character set. -- 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?
> but I don't know what should be changed since I use English. Both files > are well commented, so you should have no trouble finding the needed > lines to change. If you want to use other language than English with eSpeak, you need to figure out the name of the voice(s) for the language and add them to the espeak.conf file, one by one, like AddVoice"en""MALE1" "en" AddVoice"en""MALE2" "en-b" etc. Do not modify the existing lines, they are right. Add new lines. Then if you want to use other language as the default with Speakup, you must set it as the default language inside Speech Dispatcher (this is because Speakup doesn't support runtime language switching yet). You can do it in speechd.conf via the option DefaultLanguage (2-character ISO language code is expected) > Once you have speech-dispatcher working with espeak, you can tell orca > to use the gnome-speech speech-dispatcher driver. I'd highly recommend to directly use the Speech Dispatcher driver for Orca instead. You can download it here http://www.freebsoft.org/~cerha/orca/speech-dispatcher-backend.html and the instalation is simple. With regards, Hynek Hanke -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?
Hi. Speech-dispatcher has a config file to use espeak and the generic speech-dispatcher module. In Ubuntu, you will just install speech-dispatcher and espeak. Then, edit the /etc/speechd.conf file and uncomment the line to add the espeak-generic module. Change the default output module to espeak-generic and restart speech-dispatcher. You will probably need to make other changes to speechd.comf and espeak-generic.conf for your language, but I don't know what should be changed since I use English. Both files are well commented, so you should have no trouble finding the needed lines to change. Once you have speech-dispatcher working with espeak, you can tell orca to use the gnome-speech speech-dispatcher driver. To get things working with speakup, install the speechd-up package. Hope this helps. Kenny -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?
Hello all Thanks Gilles, Kenny and Peter for answering me. Yes, I have also found eSpeak method of managing languages straightly simple, especially when compared to other synths I knew. If Speech Dispatcher can manage eSpeak, then it's already possible to work with eSpeak under Speakup and Orca, am I right? If so, then I could get it to work under Oralux + Epsakup and Ubuntu + Orca, I guess. So, what are the steps necessary to get Speech Dispatcher to work with eSpeak? Thank you! Cleverson -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak and Screen Readers?
Lorenzo T. indicated on the gnome accessibility mailing list that he managed to get eSpeak working in LSR via Speech Dispatcher. Here's a link to his post. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2006-October/msg00038.html Pete -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?
Hi. You can use espeak as the synth with any screen reader that has speech-dispatcher support. The 2 screan readers I know of that can use speech-dispatcher are speakup and orca. Hope this helps. Kenny On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:31:24PM -0200, Cleverson wrote: > Hello all > > First, thanks Terrence who answered my previous question regarding > access to terminal apps in Ubuntu using Orca. > > Now I'd like to know if it's already possible to use eSpeak as a soft > synth with some screen reader, or if it will be soon. > > I'm helping to develope a Brazilian Portuguese voice for eSpeak. Me and > brazilian people in general will certainly take much advantage of it > when it's available and manageable by a screen reader under Linux. > > Many thanks > > Cleverson > > > -- > 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: 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
