Re: compiling speech-dispatcher with support to ibmtts

2010-01-23 Thread Gilles Casse
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).

Re: speech-dispatcher and libao

2010-01-16 Thread Gilles Casse
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

[Bug 227475] Re: libao.so contains hardcoded paths

2009-12-25 Thread Gilles Casse
AO_PLUGIN_PATH depends on $libdir supplied by configure. It would be possible (but perhaps not desirable?) to build a specific version without modifying the upstream source. Changes in the debian dir. such as e.g. in debian/rules: -confflags = --prefix=/usr --enable-static +confflags =

Re: problems when using orca with ibmtts

2009-11-30 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Re: natural voices

2008-02-08 Thread Gilles Casse
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

2008-02-02 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Re: suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa

2008-01-31 Thread Gilles Casse
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.

Re: suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa

2008-01-31 Thread Gilles Casse
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

[Bug 84416] Re: LANGUAGE environment variable not set

2007-11-24 Thread Gilles Casse
This is no more an issue for me. Thank you. -- LANGUAGE environment variable not set https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84416 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: ESpeak and other sound with Ubuntu 7.04

2007-07-28 Thread Gilles Casse
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

[Bug 92060] Re: [apport] espeak-synthesis-driver crashed with SIGSEGV in strcpy()

2007-06-18 Thread Gilles Casse
Such an issue has been recently met in the gnome-accessibility list and was finally easily reproducted, a fix has been proposed to Jonathan Duddington. This bug might be fixed with eSpeak 1.26 (not yet released at the moment) or for test purpose with http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html ) --

Re: can't set up the build environment for Orca on Ubuntu

2007-04-24 Thread Gilles Casse
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

[Bug 92060] Re: [apport] espeak-synthesis-driver crashed with SIGSEGV in strcpy()

2007-03-13 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, For some reason, the eSpeak voices are not found. Does this issue happens in a new installation, or did you update a previously installed system? Using the last daily build CD, I do not reproduce this issue in modifying the language setting in the Accessibility preferences menu. Besides

[Bug 91644] eSpeak: Please review/upload this package.

2007-03-12 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: espeak As a note, eSpeak 1.21 is available at espeak.sf.net . If possible, it should be linked against a recent Portaudio V19. Thanks! Gilles ** Affects: espeak (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- eSpeak: Please

[Bug 81881] Re: [feisty] Default spoken language

2007-03-08 Thread Gilles Casse
Today, it works without fix for Casper, gnome-speech selects now the correct voice of eSpeak according to the LANG variable. I would rather close this bug. Do you agree too, Luke? -- [feisty] Default spoken language https://launchpad.net/bugs/81881 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 81881] Re: [feisty] Default spoken language

2007-03-04 Thread Gilles Casse
Using the most recent daily built CD, and after having selected French in the boot menu, Orca speaks in French by default :-) . Thanks for the high responsiveness regarding gnome-speech 0.4.10 ! -- [feisty] Default spoken language https://launchpad.net/bugs/81881 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 81881] Re: [feisty] Default spoken language

2007-02-19 Thread Gilles Casse
A patch has been proposed: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409573 -- [feisty] Default spoken language https://launchpad.net/bugs/81881 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 81881] Re: [feisty] Default spoken language

2007-02-15 Thread Gilles Casse
The gnome-speech driver for eSpeak puts as first item of the list of voices, a voice possibly matching the LANGUAGE environment variable. In a recent daily built CD, the LANGUAGE environment variable is not set though (reported as Bug #84416 ). For finding the default language, the

[Bug 84515] 2 python packages not present in fr.archive

2007-02-11 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: These two packages are still absent from the fr.archive (released on 9 February). http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-defaults/python_2.5-0ubuntu4_all.deb http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-defaults/python-minimal_2.5-0ubuntu4_all.deb

[Bug 84349] E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/fr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_main_i18n_Translation-fr

2007-02-10 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dict-gcide A dot is lacking in the dict-gcid header translated in french. Details below, see added comment in [brackets]. Package: dict-gcide Description-md5: 0544dee06ae53441a8f51dfcb705bca9 Description-fr: Un dictionnaire anglais complet

[Bug 84349] Re: E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/fr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_main_i18n_Translation-fr

2007-02-10 Thread Gilles Casse
** Also affects: rosetta (upstream) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/fr.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_feisty_main_i18n_Translation-fr https://launchpad.net/bugs/84349 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 84416] LANGUAGE environment variable not set

2007-02-10 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: Using the 9 Feb daily built live CD: Boot options: language and keyboard: French. Under Gnome: the LANG env variable is set ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). But the LANGUAGE variable is not defined. Some applications could check LANGUAGE instead of LANG and fail. Thanks, Gilles

Re: [Bug 81881] Re: [feisty] Default spoken language

2007-01-31 Thread Gilles Casse
Luke Yelavich writes: I am happy to work on this, but if you have started, I'd be happy to have a look at what you have already done. You're welcome. In fact, no code has been written yet. Gilles -- [feisty] Default spoken language https://launchpad.net/bugs/81881 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 82098] Easy install of proprietary voice synthesizers

2007-01-29 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: This feature concerns gnome-speech and potentially any other speech driver managing a proprietary voice synthesizer. If a user wishes to install a proprietary voice synthesizer, the process is not really straitghtforward: she will install specific libraries, modify

[Bug 82015] eSpeak in Russian

2007-01-28 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: espeak-data Package please the additional data for eSpeak in Russian if they are still compliant with the current eSpeak release. For info, these data are offered at the eSpeak web site: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/data/ Thanks! Gilles ** Affects:

Re: [Bug 82015] eSpeak in Russian

2007-01-28 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, This request is related to the default spoken language in Feisty. eSpeak will be hopefully the voice synthesizer in Ubuntu Feisty. If a screen reader user boots the Live CD using Russian as her preferred language, would it be acceptable to offer eSpeak in Russian without the add-on? More

[Bug 81881] [feisty] Default spoken language

2007-01-27 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: casper The Casper accessibility script in Feisty have to help to select the default spoken language by the eSpeak voice synthesizer. More details in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MultilingualSpeechSynthesis Orca selects by default the

Re: [Bug 81183] Re: gnome-speech: Please review/upload this package.

2007-01-24 Thread Gilles Casse
I have the package prepared since a few hours after its release: we're waiting on espeak to be promoted to main. There's also the issue that espeak didn't build on amd64 and ia64 - if somebody wants to figure out why that'd be great. Thank you. Would it be possible to get access to such a

[Bug 81183] gnome-speech: Please review/upload this package.

2007-01-23 Thread Gilles Casse
Public bug reported: Could you please update the package to version 0.4.8. Thank you! Gilles ** Affects: gnome-speech (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- gnome-speech: Please review/upload this package. https://launchpad.net/bugs/81183 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 74937] Re: espeak: Please review/upload this package.

2007-01-20 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, eSpeak 1.18 has been released. Could you please update the package and propose it in the main Ubuntu repository. For info, Debian also offers eSpeak. Its package depends on PortAudio V19 (which can manage Alsa). The Ubuntu eSpeak 1.15 package depends on V18. Gilles -- espeak: Please

Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)

2007-01-15 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)

2007-01-13 Thread Gilles Casse
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

eSpeak extension

2006-12-04 Thread Gilles Casse
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:

Re: Languages and Speech synthesis

2006-11-13 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Languages and Speech synthesis

2006-11-12 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?

2006-11-01 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Re: eSpeak and Screen readers?

2006-10-30 Thread Gilles Casse
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

Oralux repository

2006-10-07 Thread Gilles Casse
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