* spd neither crashes nor speak @ Cleverson ` Zachary Kline ` Lorenzo Taylor 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Cleverson @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup 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." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: spd neither crashes nor speak spd neither crashes nor speak Cleverson @ ` Zachary Kline ` Cleverson ` Lorenzo Taylor 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 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." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: spd neither crashes nor speak ` Zachary Kline @ ` Cleverson ` Zachary Kline 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Cleverson @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 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." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: spd neither crashes nor speak ` Cleverson @ ` Zachary Kline 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 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." _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: spd neither crashes nor speak spd neither crashes nor speak Cleverson ` Zachary Kline @ ` Lorenzo Taylor 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Taylor @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF6lvcG9IpekrhBfIRArjlAJ9+DHGUHmxyJJ3mk7aDiokd6qfe9wCbB3JW izqLV4nsP0uUvLa2GOU7RBg= =k5yf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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