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)
Hi Al. I had to do something similar: my /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 pointed to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.18, but /usr/lib/libespeak.so pointed to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.15. Once I changed that, I was able to build gnome-speech (prior to that, make exits with an error). 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? Take care. Joanie On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:08 -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Hi Will, Thanks a lot for this. i've managed to get it up and running, and I must say, the performance of the synthesizer is great! An interesting note. In order to get my setup working, I had to deviate slightly from the process you described. I found that before the driver would build, I needed to create two symbolic links from /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.18: /usr/lib/libespeak.so, and /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1. I'm not sure how to account for that discrepancy; but for now, I'm just happy that it's working. --Al - Original Message - From: Willie Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com; Orca List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:19 PM Subject: Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech) Hi Al: I put Gilles's gnome-speech driver in the gnome-speech SVN trunk, and I'll do a gnome-speech 0.4.8 release with it for GNOME 2.17.90 (GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 1) a week from tomorrow. If people can give this a try before Friday and let me know of successes or issues, it would be great. Here's what I did to get it to work - it took about 15 minutes: DOWNLOAD/INSTALL ESPEAK: Download espeak-1.18-linux.zip from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ and unzip it. Type these commands to get the espeak stuff in well-known locations: cd espeak-1.18-linux sudo cp -rp espeak-data /usr/share/ sudo cp shared_library/libespeak.so.1.1.18 /usr/lib/ sudo cp shared_library/speak_lib.h /usr/include/ sudo ldconfig BUILD/INSTALL THE GNOME-SPEECH DRIVER FOR ESPEAK: In the top-level gnome-speech source directory, type these commands to build/install gnome-speech with espeak (assuming you've pulled the gnome-speech from svn at revision 267 or greater, though 267 currently is the highest revision right now): ./autogen --prefix=/usr make sudo make install I also ran test-speech to make sure it worked - it did. Gilles made this really easy for me to integrate into gnome-speech. Thanks very much Gilles, and thanks very much Jonathan for creating eSpeak and for being receptive of Gilles's mods. Note that the gnome-speech driver depends upon the libespeech library, which has a dependency on libportaudio0. I already had libportaudio0 installed on my Ubuntu box, so I didn't run into any issues. Hope this helps, and thanks again everyone. Will On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 17:09 -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Hi all, First of all, many, many thanks to both Gilles Casse and Jonathan Duddington for making this happen! 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? I think I have Espeak 1.8 installed correctly, as I'm able to get it to speak system wide when I issue the espeak command; However, the gnome-speech driver is not being built. Thanks in advance for any tips, --Al - Original Message - From: Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:50 AM Subject: eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech Version 1.18 of the eSpeak synthesizer is now available at: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ This version includes changes made by Gilles Casse which allow it to be used with a GnomeSpeech driver which he has written. This should give better results when using eSpeak with Orca and other Gnome applications. I'm not sure whether Gilles has announced his GnomeSpeech driver for eSpeak yet. He may be waiting for me announce this 1.18 version first. Please report any problems, in case there is time to fix them before the cut-off date for Ubuntu Feisty. -- 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: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)
Hey Joanie, I'm seeing the same thing. I have a number of voices listed in test-speech as well as in the Orca person dropdown; However,selecting any of these seems to have no affect. On a somewhat related note, have you tried compiling Espeak under Ubuntu for PPC? When attempting to do so, I'm getting an error during the make, having to do with the inability to find lespeak. It's as if the compile depends on the presence of libespeak, but I don't see how to compile libespeak first. --Al - Original Message - From: Joanmarie Diggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:21 PM Subject: Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was,eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech) Hi Al. I had to do something similar: my /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 pointed to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.18, but /usr/lib/libespeak.so pointed to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.15. Once I changed that, I was able to build gnome-speech (prior to that, make exits with an error). 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? Take care. Joanie On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:08 -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Hi Will, Thanks a lot for this. i've managed to get it up and running, and I must say, the performance of the synthesizer is great! An interesting note. In order to get my setup working, I had to deviate slightly from the process you described. I found that before the driver would build, I needed to create two symbolic links from /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.18: /usr/lib/libespeak.so, and /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1. I'm not sure how to account for that discrepancy; but for now, I'm just happy that it's working. --Al - Original Message - From: Willie Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com; Orca List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:19 PM Subject: Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech) Hi Al: I put Gilles's gnome-speech driver in the gnome-speech SVN trunk, and I'll do a gnome-speech 0.4.8 release with it for GNOME 2.17.90 (GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 1) a week from tomorrow. If people can give this a try before Friday and let me know of successes or issues, it would be great. Here's what I did to get it to work - it took about 15 minutes: DOWNLOAD/INSTALL ESPEAK: Download espeak-1.18-linux.zip from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ and unzip it. Type these commands to get the espeak stuff in well-known locations: cd espeak-1.18-linux sudo cp -rp espeak-data /usr/share/ sudo cp shared_library/libespeak.so.1.1.18 /usr/lib/ sudo cp shared_library/speak_lib.h /usr/include/ sudo ldconfig BUILD/INSTALL THE GNOME-SPEECH DRIVER FOR ESPEAK: In the top-level gnome-speech source directory, type these commands to build/install gnome-speech with espeak (assuming you've pulled the gnome-speech from svn at revision 267 or greater, though 267 currently is the highest revision right now): ./autogen --prefix=/usr make sudo make install I also ran test-speech to make sure it worked - it did. Gilles made this really easy for me to integrate into gnome-speech. Thanks very much Gilles, and thanks very much Jonathan for creating eSpeak and for being receptive of Gilles's mods. Note that the gnome-speech driver depends upon the libespeech library, which has a dependency on libportaudio0. I already had libportaudio0 installed on my Ubuntu box, so I didn't run into any issues. Hope this helps, and thanks again everyone. Will On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 17:09 -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Hi all, First of all, many, many thanks to both Gilles Casse and Jonathan Duddington for making this happen! 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? I think I have Espeak 1.8 installed correctly, as I'm able to get it to speak system wide when I issue the espeak command; However, the gnome-speech driver is not being built. Thanks in advance for any tips, --Al - Original Message - From: Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:50 AM Subject: eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech Version 1.18 of the eSpeak synthesizer is now available at: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ This version includes changes made by Gilles Casse which allow it to be used with a GnomeSpeech driver
Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a somewhat related note, have you tried compiling Espeak under Ubuntu for PPC? When attempting to do so, I'm getting an error during the make, having to do with the inability to find lespeak. It's as if the compile depends on the presence of libespeak, but I don't see how to compile libespeak first. Yes, compiling espeak needs the libespeak to be present in /usr/lib. But make should have compiled libespeak.so.1.18 OK. So install that in /usr/lib and do sudo ldconfig (I think that creates the link from /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.18.0). Then if you run make again, it should compile espeak OK. Perhaps there is a way of making the makefile do that automatically? -- 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)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps there is a way of making the makefile do that automatically? Following a suggestion from Gilles, here's a revised makefile that should compile all three: speak, libespeak.so.1.1.18, and espeak. Also, if you then do: sudo make install then it should put libespeak and its links into /usr/lib and put espeak into /usr/bin. Makefile Description: Binary data -- 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)
Hi Jonathan, Thanks very much for this! The good news is that the new makefile did exactly what it was supposed to do, and after a make, make install, I got everything compiled and put where it should go. However, at least on the PPC architecture, there appears to still be a problem. If I attempt to test Espeak via the command line, I get the following; Bad data: '/usr/share/espeak-data/en_dict'. This was actually happening to me before I upgraded to 1.18, and I was hoping that building the new version would resolve the issue. I completely removed the /usr/share/espeak-data directory, and let the make install recreate it; However, the error still persists. I have an I386 machine, and on that machine, I've tested both Espeak 1.5, as well as the newer 1.18, and neither exhibit this issue. --Al -- 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
