spd neither crashes nor speak

spd neither crashes nor speak

[Cleverson]

Hello all

About a year ago, I started using Oralux Linux. Recently, I decided to 
install Gentoo Linux, mainly to learn more how the system works. Besides it, 
I still use MS-Windows for some tasks.

I've just finished installing Gentoo, and currently I'm having a
problem to get Speakup to speak via speech-dispatcher using ESpeak speech 
synthesiser.

I had to install ESpeak, Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from source, as 
they are not available from the stable branch of Gentoo's repository.

Now, I can use eSpeak as a standalone synthesiser, but
speech-dispatcher doesn't speak anything through eSpeak. For example, when I 
run the
command:
espeak -vpt "teste."
it speaks fine. Then I run:
speech-dispatcher
and it starts fine. I am sure that speech-dispatcher doesn't report errors,
because I've set log level to 4 and observed that it launches espeak-generic
OK. But when I run for test:
spd-say "test."
it doesn't report errors, but doesn't speak anything at all. I am sure that
my sound card is working correctly, because eSpeak speaks well when runing 
as
standalone, as I already said. But neither "spd-say" from speech-dispatcher
speaks anything, nor speechd-up does it...

Do you have any tip that could help me please?

Thanks,
Cleverson

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Re: spd neither crashes nor speak

[Zachary Kline]

Howdy,
You can actually unmask the speechd-up, speech-dispatcher, and espeak 
packages safely.  They're not going to cause problems.
What you do is:
echo "app-accessibility/speechd-up ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.use
Repeat this with the other packages, making sure to get the syntax exactly 
right: two greater than signs, and a tilda before x86.
Then emerge the packages, and it'll automatically build them for you. 
Finally, go into:
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
with a text editor--nano will do.  Find the line that says 'defaultmodules 
flite', or defaultmodule, I forget.  Change that to 'defaultmodule 
espeak-generic'.
Now, save that file, go into /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules, and edit 
espeak-generic.conf.  There's a section which mentions a program called 
'speak'.  Change that speak to espeak, and finally save the file, and add 
the programs to the appropriate runlevels like so:
rc-update add speech-dispatcher boot
rc-update add speechd-up default
Reboot and you'll get speech.
If you've any questions, let me know, I'll be glad to help.
Yours,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cleverson" <clever92000@yahoo.com.br>
To: <Speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:22 AM
Subject: spd neither crashes nor speak


Hello all

About a year ago, I started using Oralux Linux. Recently, I decided to
install Gentoo Linux, mainly to learn more how the system works. Besides it,
I still use MS-Windows for some tasks.

I've just finished installing Gentoo, and currently I'm having a
problem to get Speakup to speak via speech-dispatcher using ESpeak speech
synthesiser.

I had to install ESpeak, Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up from source, as
they are not available from the stable branch of Gentoo's repository.

Now, I can use eSpeak as a standalone synthesiser, but
speech-dispatcher doesn't speak anything through eSpeak. For example, when I
run the
command:
espeak -vpt "teste."
it speaks fine. Then I run:
speech-dispatcher
and it starts fine. I am sure that speech-dispatcher doesn't report errors,
because I've set log level to 4 and observed that it launches espeak-generic
OK. But when I run for test:
spd-say "test."
it doesn't report errors, but doesn't speak anything at all. I am sure that
my sound card is working correctly, because eSpeak speaks well when runing
as
standalone, as I already said. But neither "spd-say" from speech-dispatcher
speaks anything, nor speechd-up does it...

Do you have any tip that could help me please?

Thanks,
Cleverson

"Be realistic; ask for the impossible."



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Re: spd neither crashes nor speak

[Cleverson]

Hello Zack,

Thank you very much. Just as a correction, the file to which we need to echo 
the keywords is package.keywords, not package.use. I've read a little about 
this, and now I succeeded to get speech.

I have other questions that I'll post on other threads. Anyways, thanks 
again.

Cleverson

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Re: spd neither crashes nor speak

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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There is a line in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf
that echos $data to espeak.  It is likely that it calls espeak as speak.
If you change speak on that line to espeak it will work for you unless
you have one of the latest versions of espeak which has both speak and
espeak, in which case I am unsure of the problem.  But you can check
your /var/log/espeak-generic.log for more info.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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Re: spd neither crashes nor speak

[Zachary Kline]

Well, package.use was my mistake, I suppose.  I could've sworn that when I 
sent the message out I double checked it...But evidently not.  You're quite 
right.
I'm glad you've succeeded at getting speech.  As an aside to that, if you 
want control over punctuation modes with Espeak, you'll want to edit the 
speechd-up boot script, in the start function is a line that calls 
'start-stop-daemon'.  Just find the part of that after the call to 
speechd-up itself, and add the -t option.  Lowercase t.  That'll give you 
full punctuation support.
Other than that, I was wondering the same thing about your four cursoring 
options.  Puzzled me a lot, it did.  Hope you get an answer soon.
Yours,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cleverson" <clever92000@yahoo.com.br>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: spd neither crashes nor speak


Hello Zack,

Thank you very much. Just as a correction, the file to which we need to echo
the keywords is package.keywords, not package.use. I've read a little about
this, and now I succeeded to get speech.

I have other questions that I'll post on other threads. Anyways, thanks
again.

Cleverson

"Be realistic; ask for the impossible."



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