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
