* using speakup with festival or flite @ Don Raikes ` Doug Sutherland ` Thomas D. Ward 0 siblings, 2 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Don Raikes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 376 bytes --] Hello, What is the status (if any) of getting speakup to work with either festival, or flite (festival lite)? I am looking for a software-based synthesizer solution for linux. I have experimented with flite and emacspeak, and think it would be nice to have speakup working with it as well. Cheers, Don Raikes home office (520) 579=-9481 HQ office (650) 506-9704 [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1021 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite using speakup with festival or flite Don Raikes @ ` Doug Sutherland ` Jacob Schmude ` (3 more replies) ` Thomas D. Ward 1 sibling, 4 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival from source and then installed speakup with the mods for software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or ViaVoice TTS? -- Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Jacob Schmude ` Doug Sutherland ` Thomas D. Ward ` rmann ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 2 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1394 bytes --] Hi I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 and 9.0. What are the errors you're getting, maybe I can help you, as flite's a nice fast little synth, though unfortunately not yet running with speakup. Also, does anyone know what the best voice to use with festival is? I've tried Kal-16k (which is what flite uses) and don't really care for it much. I've tried to link it up with the mbrola voices, but doing so produces quite a lag in responsiveness. A pity, as these voices are quite pleasant to listen to. I guess I'll have to try the british voices. As for ViaVoice TTS, don't get your hopes up since ibm discontinued it. Worse, the copyright prohibits redistribution of ViaVoice, even though IBM's basically abandoned it. It certainly would be nice to see ViaVoice revived but I wouldn't hold my breath. At 11:59 4/15/2003 +0200, you wrote: >I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival >from source and then installed speakup with the mods for >software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > >I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed >(on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling >Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release >of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling >Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the >speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or >ViaVoice TTS? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Jacob Schmude @ ` Doug Sutherland ` Jacob Schmude ` Thomas D. Ward 1 sibling, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Jacob wrote: > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > and 9.0. Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that comes with slack. > What are the errors you're getting Yesterday the compile stopped on an "internal gcc error". Scary. I've never seen that error before. I will start another compile right now and see if it does the same thing. Maybe I should try it on another machine too, this one is a 200Mhz embedded board. > maybe I can help you ... Did you just do ./configure and make? I wonder about this too... > does anyone know what the best voice to use with festival is? > I've tried Kal-16k (which is what flite uses) and don't really > care for it much. This is why I'm still interested in ViaVoice TTS for my own personal use, the voices sound much better to me. If it's not that difficult I may try adapting the speakup mods to work with ViaVoice. It's really a shame that ViaVoice can't be distributed though. > I've tried to link it up with the mbrola voices, but doing so > produces quite a lag in responsiveness. A pity, as these > voices are quite pleasant to listen to. Ah, I've thought about that, so it works but is slow ... Is it not usable for that reason? > I guess I'll have to try the british voices. As one of my brit friends always used to say: brilliant! > As for ViaVoice TTS, don't get your hopes up since ibm > discontinued it. Worse, the copyright prohibits redistribution > of ViaVoice, even though IBM's basically abandoned it. I know all of this but I have it, it works, and it sounds very nice. It's also pretty small. -- Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Jacob Schmude ` Lorenzo Prince 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi I didn't have to do anything special, ./configure, make, and make install did the trick. Then again, this is a standard 2.13ghz athlon I'm working on, I'm not messing with any special boards. Watch it, though, internal gcc errors can possibly forecast future hardware, especially memory, problems. On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Jacob wrote: > > > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > > and 9.0. > > Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? > It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that > comes with slack. > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Jacob Schmude @ ` Lorenzo Prince ` Doug Sutherland ` Christopher Moore 0 siblings, 2 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I couldn't get flite to compile on a slackware machine running an Athlon XP 1800+ processor. I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. Neither one of us could get eflite to compile either. We had to use the Debian packages for both programs and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to instal them. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled: > Hi > I didn't have to do anything special, ./configure, make, and make install > did the trick. Then again, this is a standard 2.13ghz athlon I'm working > on, I'm not messing with any special boards. Watch it, though, internal > gcc errors can possibly forecast future hardware, especially memory, > problems. > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > > > Jacob wrote: > > > > > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > > > and 9.0. > > > > Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? > > It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that > > comes with slack. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Lorenzo Prince @ ` Doug Sutherland ` Lorenzo Prince ` Christopher Moore 1 sibling, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Lorenzo wrote: > I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. > Neither one of us could get eflite to compile either. Okay ... well then ... I was already losing my hair, but at least this confirms that I'm not losing my mind yet. I have tried that flite compile on several versions of gcc on slack, it never works :( > We had to use the Debian packages for both programs > and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to > install them. Now that's annoying ... having to grab a binary from another distribution. I like compiling from source for all apps outside of slackware itself. Is there a util to convert the .deb to .tgz or .tar? -- Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Lorenzo Prince 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup We used a package called Alien, which we COULD compile from source. I don't have the website, but it is the first page that comes up when you go to www.google.com and type "alien package converter" in the search box. This did a perfect conversion to Slackware tgz format. And I agree with you. I like compiling from source rather than using binaries. For one thing, you always get the latest version, whereas the distro's binaries are usually behind. For another, you get to see the source code! WOW! Hope this helps. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > Lorenzo wrote: > > > I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile > > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. > > Neither one of us could get eflite to compile either. > > Okay ... well then ... I was already losing my hair, > but at least this confirms that I'm not losing my mind > yet. I have tried that flite compile on several versions > of gcc on slack, it never works :( > > > We had to use the Debian packages for both programs > > and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to > > install them. > > Now that's annoying ... having to grab a binary from > another distribution. I like compiling from source for > all apps outside of slackware itself. Is there a util > to convert the .deb to .tgz or .tar? > > -- Doug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Lorenzo Prince ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Christopher Moore ` Steve Holmes 1 sibling, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Christopher Moore @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I've had no problems compiling flite or eflite on slackware 8.1. Unfortunately, you haven't bee too specifid. Does the configure script run? Are you missing libraries or header files? How far does you make get? etc. Chris On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:40:59AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > I couldn't get flite to compile on a slackware machine running an Athlon > XP 1800+ processor. I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. Neither one of us > could get eflite to compile either. We had to use the Debian packages for > both programs and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to instal > them. > > Lorenzo > > E Pluribus Unix > > Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled: > > > Hi > > I didn't have to do anything special, ./configure, make, and make install > > did the trick. Then again, this is a standard 2.13ghz athlon I'm working > > on, I'm not messing with any special boards. Watch it, though, internal > > gcc errors can possibly forecast future hardware, especially memory, > > problems. > > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > > > > > Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > > > > and 9.0. > > > > > > Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? > > > It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that > > > comes with slack. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Full ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Christopher Moore @ ` Steve Holmes ` Adam Myrow ` Thomas D. Ward 0 siblings, 2 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup <HMMM> I wonder if it has something to do with GCC 3.2? Slackware 9 by default is now using gcc 3.2 and perhaps these packages don't make/compile cleanly for this newer version. I've heard of several apps which do not or did not compile under gcc 3.2 until changes were made by the developer. The CVS version of zinf audio player comes to mind as one such example. On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:32:17AM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote: > I've had no problems compiling flite or eflite on slackware 8.1. > Unfortunately, you haven't bee too specifid. Does the configure script > run? Are you missing libraries or header files? How far does you make > get? etc. > Chris > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:40:59AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > > I couldn't get flite to compile on a slackware machine running an Athlon > > XP 1800+ processor. I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile > > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. Neither one of us > > could get eflite to compile either. We had to use the Debian packages for > > both programs and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to instal > > them. > > > > Lorenzo > > > > E Pluribus Unix > > > > Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled: > > > > > Hi > > > I didn't have to do anything special, ./configure, make, and make install > > > did the trick. Then again, this is a standard 2.13ghz athlon I'm working > > > on, I'm not messing with any special boards. Watch it, though, internal > > > gcc errors can possibly forecast future hardware, especially memory, > > > problems. > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > > Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > > > > > and 9.0. > > > > > > > > Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? > > > > It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that > > > > comes with slack. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > The Moon is Full > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Steve Holmes @ ` Adam Myrow ` Lorenzo Prince ` Thomas D. Ward 1 sibling, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Adam Myrow @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Steve Holmes wrote: > <HMMM> I wonder if it has something to do with GCC 3.2? Slackware 9 by > default is now using gcc 3.2 and perhaps these packages don't > make/compile cleanly for this newer version. Well, I know that Brltty 3.0 didn't compile for me. Slackware 9.0 still ships with Brltty 2.99.8. I didn't really look into it much, since I am not really using any features from 3.0 as it is nearly the same as 2.99.8. This was the exception for me. Everything else I've compiled so far has given no trouble. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Adam Myrow @ ` Lorenzo Prince ` Christopher Moore 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Funny. Brltty 3.0 did compile on my Slackware 9.0 system. I think I had to specify the driver for my Braille display though. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Adam Myrow staggered into view and mumbled: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > <HMMM> I wonder if it has something to do with GCC 3.2? Slackware 9 by > > default is now using gcc 3.2 and perhaps these packages don't > > make/compile cleanly for this newer version. > > Well, I know that Brltty 3.0 didn't compile for me. Slackware 9.0 still > ships with Brltty 2.99.8. I didn't really look into it much, since I am > not really using any features from 3.0 as it is nearly the same as 2.99.8. > This was the exception for me. Everything else I've compiled so far has > given no trouble. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Lorenzo Prince @ ` Christopher Moore ` Lorenzo Prince 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Christopher Moore @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Try brltty 3.2 It now comes with a configure script which should help. Chris -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (99% of Full) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Christopher Moore @ ` Lorenzo Prince ` Christopher Moore 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi. I've been meaning to ask you how you get the moon phase in your emails. Really cool. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Christopher Moore staggered into view and mumbled: > Try brltty 3.2 It now comes with a configure script which should help. > Chris > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (99% of Full) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Lorenzo Prince @ ` Christopher Moore 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Christopher Moore @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Lorenzo, I include a the following line in my .muttrc file: set signature="pom |" I think there is a way to do it with pine also. You'd have to look for pine docs on signatures. Chris -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (99% of Full) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Steve Holmes ` Adam Myrow @ ` Thomas D. Ward ` Lorenzo Prince 1 sibling, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi, my Red Hat 8 system is using gcc 3.2 and flite compiled fine. So I don't One of the problems is that gcc 3.2 isusing all the new C and C++ libs, and if the developers are unwilling to yupgrade to the new C/C++ libs/header then the compile will fail or at least give warning flags. In this case flite seams to build fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Holmes <steve@holmesgrown.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:51 PM Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite > <HMMM> I wonder if it has something to do with GCC 3.2? Slackware 9 by > default is now using gcc 3.2 and perhaps these packages don't > make/compile cleanly for this newer version. I've heard of several > apps which do not or did not compile under gcc 3.2 until changes were > made by the developer. The CVS version of zinf audio player comes to > mind as one such example. > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:32:17AM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote: > > I've had no problems compiling flite or eflite on slackware 8.1. > > Unfortunately, you haven't bee too specifid. Does the configure script > > run? Are you missing libraries or header files? How far does you make > > get? etc. > > Chris > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:40:59AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > > > I couldn't get flite to compile on a slackware machine running an Athlon > > > XP 1800+ processor. I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile > > > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. Neither one of us > > > could get eflite to compile either. We had to use the Debian packages for > > > both programs and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to instal > > > them. > > > > > > Lorenzo > > > > > > E Pluribus Unix > > > > > > Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled: > > > > > > > Hi > > > > I didn't have to do anything special, ./configure, make, and make install > > > > did the trick. Then again, this is a standard 2.13ghz athlon I'm working > > > > on, I'm not messing with any special boards. Watch it, though, internal > > > > gcc errors can possibly forecast future hardware, especially memory, > > > > problems. > > > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > > > > Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > > > > > > and 9.0. > > > > > > > > > > Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? > > > > > It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that > > > > > comes with slack. > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > The Moon is Full > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Lorenzo Prince 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup This seems to be true. The Linux kernel itself, (2.4.20), gives me warning flags whenever I compile it. Something about literal strings or soomething. I get a lot of these, but it seems to work fine after building and rebooting the system. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Thomas D. Ward staggered into view and mumbled: > Hi, my Red Hat 8 system is using gcc 3.2 and flite compiled fine. So I don't > One of the problems is that gcc 3.2 isusing all the new C and C++ libs, and > if the developers are unwilling to yupgrade to the new C/C++ libs/header > then the compile will fail or at least give warning flags. > In this case flite seams to build fine. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Steve Holmes <steve@holmesgrown.com> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite > > > > <HMMM> I wonder if it has something to do with GCC 3.2? Slackware 9 by > > default is now using gcc 3.2 and perhaps these packages don't > > make/compile cleanly for this newer version. I've heard of several > > apps which do not or did not compile under gcc 3.2 until changes were > > made by the developer. The CVS version of zinf audio player comes to > > mind as one such example. > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:32:17AM -0400, Christopher Moore wrote: > > > I've had no problems compiling flite or eflite on slackware 8.1. > > > Unfortunately, you haven't bee too specifid. Does the configure script > > > run? Are you missing libraries or header files? How far does you make > > > get? etc. > > > Chris > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:40:59AM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > > > > I couldn't get flite to compile on a slackware machine running an > Athlon > > > > XP 1800+ processor. I have a friend who also couldn't get it to > compile > > > > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. Neither one > of us > > > > could get eflite to compile either. We had to use the Debian packages > for > > > > both programs and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to > instal > > > > them. > > > > > > > > Lorenzo > > > > > > > > E Pluribus Unix > > > > > > > > Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled: > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > I didn't have to do anything special, ./configure, make, and make > install > > > > > did the trick. Then again, this is a standard 2.13ghz athlon I'm > working > > > > > on, I'm not messing with any special boards. Watch it, though, > internal > > > > > gcc errors can possibly forecast future hardware, especially memory, > > > > > problems. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 > > > > > > > and 9.0. > > > > > > > > > > > > Did you have to do anything special with the makefiles? > > > > > > It never seems to work for me with the standard gcc that > > > > > > comes with slack. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > > > The Moon is Full > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Jacob Schmude ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Thomas D. Ward ` Doug Sutherland 1 sibling, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I think kevin 16 k sounds the best. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacob Schmude <jacobs@surferie.net> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:54 PM Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite > Hi > I've never had a problem compiling flite, both on slack 8.1 and 9.0. What > are the errors you're getting, maybe I can help you, as flite's a nice fast > little synth, though unfortunately not yet running with speakup. > Also, does anyone know what the best voice to use with festival is? I've > tried Kal-16k (which is what flite uses) and don't really care for it much. > I've tried to link it up with the mbrola voices, but doing so produces > quite a lag in responsiveness. A pity, as these voices are quite pleasant > to listen to. I guess I'll have to try the british voices. > As for ViaVoice TTS, don't get your hopes up since ibm discontinued it. > Worse, the copyright prohibits redistribution of ViaVoice, even though > IBM's basically abandoned it. It certainly would be nice to see ViaVoice > revived but I wouldn't hold my breath. > > At 11:59 4/15/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > >from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > >software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > > >I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > >(on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > >Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > >of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > >Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > >speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > >ViaVoice TTS? > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Doug Sutherland ` Thomas D. Ward 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Thomas, > I think kevin 16 k sounds the best. Can you please tell me where to download this one. Is that from mbrola? The festival voices seem to be called kal, ked, and rab. Can this kevin voice be used with both festival and flite? Thanks, Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Thomas D. Ward ` Doug Sutherland 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi, it was one of the festival voices, but for some reason I can't seam to find the voice either in the 1.4.3 directory. I am not running festival 1.4.3 and I suspect it was dropped for some reason. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Sutherland <wearable@shawcable.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite > Thomas, > > > I think kevin 16 k sounds the best. > > Can you please tell me where to download this one. Is that > from mbrola? The festival voices seem to be called kal, > ked, and rab. > > Can this kevin voice be used with both festival and flite? > > Thanks, > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Doug Sutherland 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Thomas, I'd really like to try that Kevin 16k voice. Do you still have the tarball? Any chance you could send it to me. I could accept it as an email attachment to wearable@shawcable.com It would be best if it was bz2. Thanks, Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland ` Jacob Schmude @ ` rmann ` Doug Sutherland ` Thomas D. Ward ` Lorenzo Prince 3 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: rmann @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup How do you like using Speakup with the Usrdev driver? I got it working, but after about an hour I decided to go back to using my Doubletalk synth because I couldn't get speech to shut up when I wanted it to. On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Doug Sutherland wrote: > I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > ViaVoice TTS? > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` rmann @ ` Doug Sutherland 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup rmann@rmisp.net wrote: > How do you like using Speakup with the Usrdev driver? > I got it working, but after about an hour I decided to > go back to using my Doubletalk synth because I couldn't > get speech to shut up when I wanted it to. I don't have an external speech synthesizer, so I have nothing to compare to ... this is my first experience with speakup. To be honest I have no idea if it is behaving and operating properly yet. It's definitely speaking console output, but I have seen some flaky things happening. I will try the speakup 1.5 with the mods for software synth, and start testing each of the speakup functions to see if they appear to work. Come to think of it, I did have trouble getting it to stop speaking ... anyone else using the software synth? What's your experience been like? Is it not doing the same as an external synth? -- Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland ` Jacob Schmude ` rmann @ ` Thomas D. Ward ` Doug Sutherland ` Lorenzo Prince 3 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi, do you have the standard oss libs installed? Have you specified to flite to build with oss and not alsa? If you try and build with alsa flite will fail to compile. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Sutherland <wearable@shawcable.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:59 AM Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite > I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > ViaVoice TTS? > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Doug Sutherland ` Thomas D. Ward 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I am using the standard linux OSS audio. This time the compile seems to have locked my machine. I'm going to move the drive to a pentium II and see if it compiles there. > Hi, do you have the standard oss libs installed? > Have you specified to flite to build with oss and > not alsa? I assume I don't need to configure anything special if I'm using the standard OSS drivers. -- Doug ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Thomas D. Ward 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup If you have the alsa libs installed the standard configure won't work. You will have to specify with os_libs If the alsa libs are not installed then configure should work fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Sutherland <wearable@shawcable.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite > I am using the standard linux OSS audio. > This time the compile seems to have locked my machine. > I'm going to move the drive to a pentium II and see > if it compiles there. > > > Hi, do you have the standard oss libs installed? > > Have you specified to flite to build with oss and > > not alsa? > > I assume I don't need to configure anything special > if I'm using the standard OSS drivers. > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland ` (2 preceding siblings ...) ` Thomas D. Ward @ ` Lorenzo Prince ` Doug Sutherland 3 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I need a little help with this festival mod. I followed the documentation you sent in the emails, and it compiles perfectly and everything works until Festival --server& starts. Actually, that works too, untill I start typing in my login information. It then just says f and maybe the first character I typed. It continues to do this until I reboot. I can't interrupt speech, even by killing Speakup. What went wrong? Please shed some light on this if you can. Thanks, Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > ViaVoice TTS? > > -- Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Lorenzo Prince @ ` Doug Sutherland ` Lorenzo Prince 0 siblings, 1 reply; 30+ messages in thread From: Doug Sutherland @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Lorenzo, I'm not sure what would be wrong. Can you test festival independent of speakup? Can you boot using external synth and then run festival from the command line and make it speak properly? Did the speakup patches apply with no errors? Try using festival_server instead of the --server flag. Owen mentioned that it's different. I think you can tweak the configuration settings using that script. -- Doug Lorenzo wrote: >I need a little help with this festival mod. I followed the documentation >you sent in the emails, and it compiles perfectly and everything works >until Festival --server& starts. Actually, that works too, untill I start >typing in my login information. It then just says f and maybe the first >character I typed. It continues to do this until I reboot. I can't >interrupt speech, even by killing Speakup. What went wrong? Please shed >some light on this if you can. > >Thanks, >Lorenzo > >E Pluribus Unix > >Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > > > I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > > from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > > software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > > > I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > > (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > > Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > > of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > > Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > > speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > > ViaVoice TTS? > > > > -- Doug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Lorenzo Prince 0 siblings, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Lorenzo Prince @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Well, I did test Festival, and it works. The kernel, festivsl, and the middleware all compiled with NO errors. I also tried festival_server, with a modification to the path to make it work, but that didn't help. I haven't however tried tweaking the festival_server script itself. I will try that. Thanks, Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > Lorenzo, > > I'm not sure what would be wrong. Can you test festival > independent of speakup? Can you boot using external synth > and then run festival from the command line and make it > speak properly? Did the speakup patches apply with no > errors? Try using festival_server instead of the --server > flag. Owen mentioned that it's different. I think you can > tweak the configuration settings using that script. > > -- Doug > > > Lorenzo wrote: > > >I need a little help with this festival mod. I followed the documentation > >you sent in the emails, and it compiles perfectly and everything works > >until Festival --server& starts. Actually, that works too, untill I start > >typing in my login information. It then just says f and maybe the first > >character I typed. It continues to do this until I reboot. I can't > >interrupt speech, even by killing Speakup. What went wrong? Please shed > >some light on this if you can. > > > >Thanks, > >Lorenzo > > > >E Pluribus Unix > > > >Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > > > > > I have speakup working with Festival, I compile festival > > > from source and then installed speakup with the mods for > > > software synthesizer (had to compile a new kernel). > > > > > > I tried compiling Flite yesterday and the compile failed > > > (on slackware 9). I have never succeeded in compiling > > > Flite on slackware. I try it every time a new release > > > of slack comes out. Has anyone suceeded in compiling > > > Flite on slackware 9? Also, has anyone tried to get the > > > speakup mods for software synth working with Flite or > > > ViaVoice TTS? > > > > > > -- Doug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
* Re: using speakup with festival or flite using speakup with festival or flite Don Raikes ` Doug Sutherland @ ` Thomas D. Ward 1 sibling, 0 replies; 30+ messages in thread From: Thomas D. Ward @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 680 bytes --] speakup works with festival if you want to take the time compiling everything you require to use it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Raikes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 7:38 PM Subject: using speakup with festival or flite Hello, What is the status (if any) of getting speakup to work with either festival, or flite (festival lite)? I am looking for a software-based synthesizer solution for linux. I have experimented with flite and emacspeak, and think it would be nice to have speakup working with it as well. Cheers, Don Raikes home office (520) 579=-9481 HQ office (650) 506-9704 [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1968 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 30+ messages in thread
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