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
