configuring espeak 1.19

configuring espeak 1.19

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi everyone, especially Jonathan <smile>

I have installed espeak 1.19 and have two questions about configuring 
it.

I want to use the new en-r voice selection. Using speak from the command 
line like this, works fine:

speak -v en-r "sample of speech goes here"

but when I add the -v switch to the espeak-module.conf file in the 
speech-dispatcher modules directory, it is ignored.

How can I persuade speech-dispatcher to use the en-r voice?

Second, how do I install the libespeak shared library, which seems 
compiled successfully, but not installed? 

Thanks for any help here. The new voicing sounds pretty good on the 
command line, good enough to promote to speech-dispatcher if I can.

Great job, Jonathan, bloody good!

Chuck

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Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <20070129125128.GA24520@cq.ftml.net>,
   Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net> wrote:

> Second, how do I install the libespeak shared library, which seems 
> compiled successfully, but not installed? 

make install
ldconfig

should do it, after gaining root access with "su".

Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Seems like I grabbed the binary package. I'll go get the source so I can 
use the make install option.

Thanks.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:05:27PM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> In article <20070129125128.GA24520@cq.ftml.net>,
>    Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net> wrote:
> 
> > Second, how do I install the libespeak shared library, which seems 
> > compiled successfully, but not installed? 
> 
> make install
> ldconfig
> 
> should do it, after gaining root access with "su".
> 
> 
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Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <20070129134109.GA25437@cq.ftml.net>,
   Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net> wrote:

> Seems like I grabbed the binary package. I'll go get the source so I
> can use the make install option.

Or:

Copy the  libespeak.so.1.0.19 into  /usr/lib

Then in /usr/lib  with root access, do:
   ln libespeak.so.1.1.19  libespeak.so.1

And if it's not already there:
   ln libespeak.so.1  libespeak.so

Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Already got the source package and got it installed and working,  
thanks.

Now for the speech-dispatcher issue. Anybody got any ideas?

Chuck


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:47:25PM +0000, Jonathan Duddington wrote:
> In article <20070129134109.GA25437@cq.ftml.net>,
>    Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net> wrote:
> 
> > Seems like I grabbed the binary package. I'll go get the source so I
> > can use the make install option.
> 
> Or:
> 
> Copy the  libespeak.so.1.0.19 into  /usr/lib
> 
> Then in /usr/lib  with root access, do:
>    ln libespeak.so.1.1.19  libespeak.so.1
> 
> And if it's not already there:
>    ln libespeak.so.1  libespeak.so
> 
> 
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Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Tomas Cerha]

Chuck Hallenbeck napsal(a):
> I want to use the new en-r voice selection. Using speak from the command 
> line like this, works fine:
> 
> speak -v en-r "sample of speech goes here"
> 
> but when I add the -v switch to the espeak-module.conf file in the 
> speech-dispatcher modules directory, it is ignored.

Hi Chuck,

you need to tune the voice mapping in your
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf.  This is done by the
AddVoice directive.  There is a bunch of such directives in the default
configuration file, so you may just turn the first of them from:

AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en"

to:

AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en-r"

See http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher_10.html#SEC27
for more details.

Your GenericExecuteSynth should look like:
"echo \"$DATA\" | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a
$VOLUME -p $PITCH --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav"

Best regards, Tomas.

Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Thanks, Thomas.

It works now.

Chuck

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Chuck Hallenbeck napsal(a):
> > I want to use the new en-r voice selection. Using speak from the command 
> > line like this, works fine:
> > 
> > speak -v en-r "sample of speech goes here"
> > 
> > but when I add the -v switch to the espeak-module.conf file in the 
> > speech-dispatcher modules directory, it is ignored.
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> you need to tune the voice mapping in your
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf.  This is done by the
> AddVoice directive.  There is a bunch of such directives in the default
> configuration file, so you may just turn the first of them from:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en"
> 
> to:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en-r"
> 
> See http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher_10.html#SEC27
> for more details.
> 
> Your GenericExecuteSynth should look like:
> "echo \"$DATA\" | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a
> $VOLUME -p $PITCH --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav"
> 
> Best regards, Tomas.
> 
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virtual machines

[Monty Lilburn]

Hello All,

Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on 
my Linux/Debian box.  Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP 
running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine.  I would hope to be able 
to run Jaws  on the Windows XP guest O/S too.

As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu.  Before attempting to 
get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively 
simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO.  Although 
the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally 
don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part.  It did work once but I 
don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is 
proving  to be difficult to duplicate.

Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has 
any  better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going?  I've heard 
that  VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have 
X-windows installed on my Debian box.  In order to do this (unless I am 
wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the 
X-windows/Gnome  environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer. 
Maybe there is a way around this?  The last time I attempted to install 
Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages 
didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome 
message.  I digress!!!

So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
   Monty

RE: virtual machines

[Stephen Clower]

Yes, VM Player will, in the long run, save you considerable grief. I have
only used it on Windows, but I suspect you would need the XWindow system and
Gnome to install it. Gnopernicus is dead now, and from what I understand is
no longer being developed. Orca works pretty well, and LSR might also. I
would suggest using something like Qemu to generate a VMX file for you with
your virtual machine's configuration and then run the VM with VM Player. I
do so on Windows, and it works great.
Good luck.
Steve


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Subject: virtual machines

Hello All,

Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on 
my Linux/Debian box.  Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP 
running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine.  I would hope to be able 
to run Jaws  on the Windows XP guest O/S too.

As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu.  Before attempting to 
get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively 
simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO.  Although 
the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally 
don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part.  It did work once but I 
don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is 
proving  to be difficult to duplicate.

Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has 
any  better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going?  I've heard 
that  VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have 
X-windows installed on my Debian box.  In order to do this (unless I am 
wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the 
X-windows/Gnome  environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer. 
Maybe there is a way around this?  The last time I attempted to install 
Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages 
didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome 
message.  I digress!!!

So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
   Monty

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Re: virtual machines

[Tyler Spivey]

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I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up
going
with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but
everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd
that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options,
and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just
posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in
bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a
spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going
at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took
5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With
vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but
sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset.
Hope this helps,
Tyler

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:41:24PM +0000, Monty Lilburn wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on 
> my Linux/Debian box.  Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP 
> running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine.  I would hope to be able 
> to run Jaws  on the Windows XP guest O/S too.
> 
> As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu.  Before attempting to 
> get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively 
> simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO.  Although 
> the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally 
> don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part.  It did work once but I 
> don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is 
> proving  to be difficult to duplicate.
> 
> Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has 
> any  better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going?  I've heard 
> that  VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have 
> X-windows installed on my Debian box.  In order to do this (unless I am 
> wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the 
> X-windows/Gnome  environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer. 
> Maybe there is a way around this?  The last time I attempted to install 
> Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages 
> didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome 
> message.  I digress!!!
> 
> So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Monty
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: virtual machines

[Gregory Nowak]

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If I'm not mistaken, vmware is a commercial package, right? Is there
anything free, (either speech or beer), that can do the job fairly
well?

Greg


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:57:25PM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote:
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> I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up
> going
> with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but
> everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd
> that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options,
> and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just
> posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in
> bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a
> spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going
> at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took
> 5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With
> vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but
> sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset.
> Hope this helps,
> Tyler
> 

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Re: virtual machines

[Doug Sutherland]

It's not free as in source, but vmware server and also
vmware player are free as in beer, available for both
windoze and linux. This is fairly recent, vmware used
to cost a pretty penny. Still does for commercial use,
but its free for the taking for induhviduals.

http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html

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Gregory Nowak wrote:
 > If I'm not mistaken, vmware is a commercial package, right?
 > Is there anything free, (either speech or beer), that can do
 > the job fairly well?

Re: virtual machines

[Marcel Oats]

VMWare server is free, though you still have to register and get a 
serial number.  Fairly easy to use, though the buttons are not read under Orca.

Marcel
At 04:12 p.m. 30/01/2007, you wrote:
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>well?
>
>Greg
>
>
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> > I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up
> > going
> > with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but
> > everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd
> > that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options,
> > and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just
> > posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in
> > bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a
> > spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going
> > at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took
> > 5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With
> > vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but
> > sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset.
> > Hope this helps,
> > Tyler
> >
>
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Re: virtual machines

[Monty Lilburn]

Thanks guys, I'll see if I can get something going with vmware then!

Monty

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Tyler Spivey wrote:

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> I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up
> going
> with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but
> everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd
> that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options,
> and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just
> posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in
> bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a
> spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going
> at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took
> 5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With
> vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but
> sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset.
> Hope this helps,
> Tyler
>
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:41:24PM +0000, Monty Lilburn wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on
>> my Linux/Debian box.  Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP
>> running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine.  I would hope to be able
>> to run Jaws  on the Windows XP guest O/S too.
>>
>> As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu.  Before attempting to
>> get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively
>> simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO.  Although
>> the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally
>> don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part.  It did work once but I
>> don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is
>> proving  to be difficult to duplicate.
>>
>> Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has
>> any  better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going?  I've heard
>> that  VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have
>> X-windows installed on my Debian box.  In order to do this (unless I am
>> wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the
>> X-windows/Gnome  environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer.
>> Maybe there is a way around this?  The last time I attempted to install
>> Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages
>> didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome
>> message.  I digress!!!
>>
>> So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>    Monty
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Steve Holmes]

Two things here.  Is there a direct module to link Espeak and Speech
Dispatcher yet? The second question is more concerning Speech Dispatcher
than Espeak and that is I am trying to get Speech Dispatcher to work
with the Cepstral voices.  I have two of them: Callie and David.  But
Speech Dispatcher won't select the right voice.  Right now, David is the
default voice because he was the last one installed to Cepstral but I
want Speech Dispatcher to use Callie so I modified the
cepstral-generic.conf file to include Callie and David with addvoice
entries as you described but David still comes up talking every time.
If I hard code Callie in the command line after a '-v' option, she talks
sexxy as ever:).  So I'm wondering about the reliability of voice
selections with the default voice sellection in the configuration vs the
hard coding of -v command line option.  It would appear that addvoice
options aren't available or something.  Hope this makes sense.  Other
than that problem, Cepstral is off to a good start provided enough
system resources are available.

I'm using Speech Dispatcher 0.3 (July of 2006) or there abouts.

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Chuck Hallenbeck napsal(a):
> > I want to use the new en-r voice selection. Using speak from the command 
> > line like this, works fine:
> > 
> > speak -v en-r "sample of speech goes here"
> > 
> > but when I add the -v switch to the espeak-module.conf file in the 
> > speech-dispatcher modules directory, it is ignored.
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> you need to tune the voice mapping in your
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf.  This is done by the
> AddVoice directive.  There is a bunch of such directives in the default
> configuration file, so you may just turn the first of them from:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en"
> 
> to:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en-r"
> 
> See http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher_10.html#SEC27
> for more details.
> 
> Your GenericExecuteSynth should look like:
> "echo \"$DATA\" | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a
> $VOLUME -p $PITCH --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav"
> 
> Best regards, Tomas.
> 
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Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Tomas Cerha]

Steve Holmes napsal(a):
> I want Speech Dispatcher to use Callie so I modified the
> cepstral-generic.conf file to include Callie and David with addvoice
> entries as you described but David still comes up talking every time.
> If I hard code Callie in the command line after a '-v' option, she talks
> sexxy as ever:).

Hi Steve, I don't know of cepstral-generic.conf file.  Where did you get
it?  You can try turning on the debug logging and you will see what the
command line exactly looks like.  Just set `Debug 1' in
cepstral-generic.conf and see /var/log/speech-dispatcher/cepstral.log
(you may have a different logfile set for the module).

Regards, Tomas

Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Steve Holmes]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:49:12PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Hi Steve, I don't know of cepstral-generic.conf file.  Where did you get
> it?  You can try turning on the debug logging and you will see what the
> command line exactly looks like.  Just set `Debug 1' in
> cepstral-generic.conf and see /var/log/speech-dispatcher/cepstral.log

 built my own.  I just copied one of the others like DECTalk and altered
the commands so I got it basically working but can't control the voice
selection as I pointed out earlier.  I will next code in the pitch,
rate, and volume parms.  I did it for Espeak so it shouldn't be too hard
for Cepstral either.  I'm just not sure about the voice selection.  I
never tried it with espeak to know if it works anywhere else either.

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Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Tomas Cerha]

Steve Holmes wrote:
>> I don't know of cepstral-generic.conf file.  Where did you get it? 
> built my own.

Great.  Guess you wouldn't mind sharing it once it works all right...

> the commands so I got it basically working but can't control the voice
> selection as I pointed out earlier.

To set the default voice for the English language, you should have
something like that in your voice mapping:

AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"voice-name"

where `voice-name' is the name of the voice as recognized by cepstral.

Of course, you also need to use the $VOICE variable within the
GenericExecuteSynth command.

Let me know if that doesn't work and try to turn on debugging as
suggested earlier.

Best regards

Tomas

Re: configuring espeak 1.19

[Steve Holmes]

I'll try the debugging route to see what is in those variables.  Yes; I
have the addvoice setting as you describe below.  Yes, I'll gladly share
what I end up with unless someone beets me to it:).

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:04:25PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Steve Holmes wrote:
> >> I don't know of cepstral-generic.conf file.  Where did you get it? 
> > built my own.
> 
> Great.  Guess you wouldn't mind sharing it once it works all right...
> 
> > the commands so I got it basically working but can't control the voice
> > selection as I pointed out earlier.
> 
> To set the default voice for the English language, you should have
> something like that in your voice mapping:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"voice-name"
> 
> where `voice-name' is the name of the voice as recognized by cepstral.
> 
> Of course, you also need to use the $VOICE variable within the
> GenericExecuteSynth command.
> 
> Let me know if that doesn't work and try to turn on debugging as
> suggested earlier.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Tomas
> 
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