Re: Speech-dispatcher and the -generic modules for Dectalk and Swift voices
Hi, Following up on my own post as I solved my problems and wanted to share in case it's helpful to others. Firstly, never underestimate the power of user error. I'd screwed up a symlink to the Dectalk say executable so speech-dispatcher couldn't find it. The log files in /var/log/speech-dispatcher (one per module) are really really helpful. I also found that reducing the number of speech-dispatcher modules added to the absolute minimum needed helped. I was getting a broken pipe error when trying to use Cepstral but it seems to have been caused by a different module that I wasn't using. Uncommenting only the espeak, dectalk and cepstral modules meant I could get all working. The ALSA/OSS problem did arise so installing the aoss tool from the alsa-oss package was the answer. I changed the relevant module conf file to use that when calling the executable and again that worked out. I tried various sound output and for Dectalk at least I was getting minor clicks at the end of each utterance when using PulseAudio. For this synth I found the ALSA output with the aoss as described above worked best. Because the Swift module actually generates a wav file and then sends that to the sound system I find the swift module has too much lag for my tastes. Which is a shame as the Cepstral voices are superb. Hope that's useful to someone, Garry -- Garry Turkington garry.turking...@gmail.com On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Garry Turkington wrote: Hi, After living with an old speakup 2.x install for an age I finally got around to building an up-to-date Ubuntu install. I've got Orca working with gnome-speech but also want speakup for terminal access. Since I want to use either Dectalk or Cepstral voices I've configured speech-dispatcher/speechd-up and can get it to work fine with espeak. But when I try to use the dtk-generic module I get no speech via spd-say. At first it appeared to be an Alsa/OSS thing as I think speech-dispatcher was locking /dev/dsp and the Dectalk libraries seem to want to talk to it directly via OSS. So I switched speech-dispatcher to use OSS and the conflict is gone in that while speech-dispatcher is configured with espeak I can successfully use the Dectalk command line say utility. But when I try and move to the dtk-generic module I get nothing. Plainly there's some incantation I'm missing here -- does anyone know it? I'll move onto Cepstral Swift after hopefully resolving this -- currently just loading the Swift module kills speech-dispatcher... Thanks, Garry -- Garry Turkington garry.turking...@gmail.com -- 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: Speech-dispatcher and the -generic modules for Dectalk and Swift voices
Hi, Thanks for the tip of commenting out all modules you're not actually using. I was having trouble getting speech-dispatcher to work at all with the swift module uncommented. In my case I also had to add the name of my voice to the swift-generic config file before it would work. I now have sd working through pulse with espeak, viavoice and swift. I have the output mode in sd set to oss then run speech-dispatcher with the padsp command. Thanks. Paul On 06/06/09 15:57, Garry Turkington wrote: Hi, Following up on my own post as I solved my problems and wanted to share in case it's helpful to others. Firstly, never underestimate the power of user error. I'd screwed up a symlink to the Dectalk say executable so speech-dispatcher couldn't find it. The log files in /var/log/speech-dispatcher (one per module) are really really helpful. I also found that reducing the number of speech-dispatcher modules added to the absolute minimum needed helped. I was getting a broken pipe error when trying to use Cepstral but it seems to have been caused by a different module that I wasn't using. Uncommenting only the espeak, dectalk and cepstral modules meant I could get all working. The ALSA/OSS problem did arise so installing the aoss tool from the alsa-oss package was the answer. I changed the relevant module conf file to use that when calling the executable and again that worked out. I tried various sound output and for Dectalk at least I was getting minor clicks at the end of each utterance when using PulseAudio. For this synth I found the ALSA output with the aoss as described above worked best. Because the Swift module actually generates a wav file and then sends that to the sound system I find the swift module has too much lag for my tastes. Which is a shame as the Cepstral voices are superb. Hope that's useful to someone, Garry -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Speech-dispatcher and the -generic modules for Dectalk and Swift voices
Hi, After living with an old speakup 2.x install for an age I finally got around to building an up-to-date Ubuntu install. I've got Orca working with gnome-speech but also want speakup for terminal access. Since I want to use either Dectalk or Cepstral voices I've configured speech-dispatcher/speechd-up and can get it to work fine with espeak. But when I try to use the dtk-generic module I get no speech via spd-say. At first it appeared to be an Alsa/OSS thing as I think speech-dispatcher was locking /dev/dsp and the Dectalk libraries seem to want to talk to it directly via OSS. So I switched speech-dispatcher to use OSS and the conflict is gone in that while speech-dispatcher is configured with espeak I can successfully use the Dectalk command line say utility. But when I try and move to the dtk-generic module I get nothing. Plainly there's some incantation I'm missing here -- does anyone know it? I'll move onto Cepstral Swift after hopefully resolving this -- currently just loading the Swift module kills speech-dispatcher... Thanks, Garry -- Garry Turkington garry.turking...@gmail.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
