Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. What happens if you send the speech output to a WAV file? Again, nothing useful. I think eSpeak is actually creating an invalid wav file. I get the same behavior. What architecture and OS is this on? Is

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:14:27PM EST, Jonathan Duddington wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. What happens if you send the speech output to a WAV file? Again, nothing useful. I think eSpeak is actually creating an invalid wav

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, le Sun 21 Jan 2007 22:58:57 +1100, a écrit : Is the byte order different from i386? I think it is, but I couldn't be sure of that. It is different indeed: ppc is big endian. Samuel -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the same behavior on Ubuntu Edgy powerpc. What happens if you run espeakedit --compile or espeakedit --help ? Is there an error message? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/espeak-data$ ../espeakedit-1.18/src/espeakedit

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My PPC box is running the GUI; so what would be involved in recompiling the data? Is it just a matter of installing the espeakedit program and issuing a command line? First I must check for other byte-order dependencies,

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I must check for other byte-order dependencies, and make some changes to the espeakedit program. I will let you know when it's ready to try. Once it's compiled, hopefully you will be able to just do:

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Al can get the data compiled and sent to me, that should be good enough for now, as I don't see the chances of espeak being used on ia64 and sparc being very high, but for the future, we need a more perminant solution

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Al Puzzuoli
, January 21, 2007 7:34 PM Subject: Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Al can get the data compiled and sent to me, that should be good enough for now, as I don't see the chances of espeak being used on ia64 and sparc being

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-21 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:23:39AM EST, Jonathan Duddington wrote: I think the espeakedit program may be able to run on PPC and compile the phoneme data. espeakedit --compile will compile both the phoneme data and the dictionary data, if it finds the source data in the expected places,

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-20 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:30:33PM EST, Al Puzzuoli wrote: Hi Jonathan, I tried the experiments you suggested. 1. What text output do you get if you use the -x option, eg: espeak -x hello? Interestingly, I'm not getting any text at all. When I do this, I'm immediately dropped

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-15 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Al Puzzuoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After recompiling the dictionary data, I no longer get that error; However, still no speech. If I send a string to eSpeak, it just exits with no noticeable output. Does that suggest incompatible phoneme data? I'm not

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-15 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Hi Jonathan, I tried the experiments you suggested. 1. What text output do you get if you use the -x option, eg: espeak -x hello? Interestingly, I'm not getting any text at all. When I do this, I'm immediately dropped back to the shell with no output. 2. What happens if you send the

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-14 Thread Jonathan Duddington
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delete the file /usr/share/espeak-data/en_dict file, and also make sure you don't have a directory espeak-data in your user's home directory. ... because it will use the espeak-data in the user's home directory in

Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture

2007-01-14 Thread Al Puzzuoli
] To: Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:42 PM Subject: Re: eSpeak - PPC architecture In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Duddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delete the file /usr/share/espeak-data/en_dict file