Ttsynth with Speech-dispatcher

Ttsynth with Speech-dispatcher

[Tom Moore]

Hi guys,
Has anyone been able to get Ttsynth to work with Speech-dispatcher under
Debian or Ubuntu?
I have the Ttsynth package installed on the machine and tried setting the
output module of Speech-dispatcher to ibmtts.
When I restarted Speech-dispatcher I didn't get any speech.
Also tried a simple test by telnetting to port 6560 on the localhost and
trying to get Speech-dispatcher to output things using the speak command but
this didn't really work either.
Anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks,
Tom

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Re: Ttsynth with Speech-dispatcher

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:20:37PM EST, Tom Moore wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Has anyone been able to get Ttsynth to work with Speech-dispatcher under
> Debian or Ubuntu?
> I have the Ttsynth package installed on the machine and tried setting the
> output module of Speech-dispatcher to ibmtts.

Unfortunately, you also have to rebuild speech-dispatcher against 
ibmtts/ttsynth to use it.

Note that if you intend to use ttsynth with speakup, there is a small 
program you can download and build from the ttsynth website called 
ttsynth-speakup-connector, that takes the output of speakup and sends it 
straight to ttsynth.
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Re: Ttsynth with Speech-dispatcher

[Tomas Cerha]

Tom Moore wrote:
> I have the Ttsynth package installed on the machine and tried setting the
> output module of Speech-dispatcher to ibmtts.
> When I restarted Speech-dispatcher I didn't get any speech.

Hi Tom, if you have SD installed from a package, it most likely doesn't
include the ibmtts module (due to licensing issues).  You will need to
compile Speech Dispatcher from source.  You need to have TTSynth SDK
installed.  See the INSTALL file included with the Speech Dispatcher
package for more information.

Best regards, Tomas

Re: Ttsynth with Speech-dispatcher

[Janina Sajka]

Tomas Cerha writes:
> ... it most likely doesn't
> include the ibmtts module (due to licensing issues).

Thomas, This is not correct. There is no longer any license impediment
to packaging drivers for TTSynth (ibmtts). Our friends at IBM succeeded
some time ago in getting the interfaces released under LGPL, so the path
is clear for Speech Dispatcher, Gnome-Speech, etc. In fact, IBM names
Speech Dispatcher on their Source Forge page where the API is published.
See the following URI:

http://ibmtts-sdk.sf.net

Janina