* Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing
@ Hynek Hanke
` Michael Whapples
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From: Hynek Hanke @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hello,
the Brailcom organization would like to ask for help with testing
Speech Dispatcher version 0.6.4 Beta1 for the upcomming release.
You can download the distribution tarball at
http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.6.4beta1.tar.gz
What is new in 0.6.4?
- Native output module for eSpeak (thanks to Lukas Loehrer)
(called espeak, not espeak-generic)
- Support for punctuation settings in the Generic output module
(thanks to Steve Holmes)
- Default audio output for all modules switched to ALSA
- Support for listing output modules and voices supported by
a synthesizer
- Bug fixes (SMP related bugs, bugs in libspeechd and others)
How to report bugs?
Please report bugs at <speechd@bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
contact please use <speechd@lists.freebsoft.org>
Thank you,
Hynek Hanke
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Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing Hynek Hanke
@ ` Michael Whapples
` Lukas Loehrer
` Michael Whapples
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Michael Whapples @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
I have just downloaded it and installed it, seems to be working fine at
the moment, and I am glad that there is now a espeak specific module.
One question about the espeak module, how can I change the voice? I have
tried setting the default voice in speechd.conf to FEMALE1 but it seems
to not have changed anything (even after restarting speech-dispatcher,
and even after a machine restart to make sure it did reload). Is it that
the espeak module doesn't support the different voices?
From
Michael Whapples
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 00:09 -0700, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the Brailcom organization would like to ask for help with testing
> Speech Dispatcher version 0.6.4 Beta1 for the upcomming release.
>
> You can download the distribution tarball at
> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.6.4beta1.tar.gz
>
> What is new in 0.6.4?
> - Native output module for eSpeak (thanks to Lukas Loehrer)
> (called espeak, not espeak-generic)
> - Support for punctuation settings in the Generic output module
> (thanks to Steve Holmes)
> - Default audio output for all modules switched to ALSA
> - Support for listing output modules and voices supported by
> a synthesizer
> - Bug fixes (SMP related bugs, bugs in libspeechd and others)
>
> How to report bugs?
>
> Please report bugs at <speechd@bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
> contact please use <speechd@lists.freebsoft.org>
>
> Thank you,
> Hynek Hanke
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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` Michael Whapples
@ ` Lukas Loehrer
` Michael Whapples
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lukas Loehrer @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Michael Whapples writes ("Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing"):
> One question about the espeak module, how can I change the voice? I have
> tried setting the default voice in speechd.conf to FEMALE1 but it seems
For the speech-dispatcher voice settings to work at all with the
espeak module, you will need at least espeak 1.27.08:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/test/latest.html
Currently, you cannot configure in detail, which espeak voice is used for
which speech-dispatcher setting. This feature might be added to the
module in the future.
Best regards, Lukas
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` Michael Whapples
` Lukas Loehrer
@ ` Michael Whapples
` Lukas Loehrer
` Hynek Hanke
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From: Michael Whapples @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Tried updating to the latest version of espeak, works fine now.
Would be good to have voice mapping control in the module as espeak offers
so many more voices than speech-dispatcher offers, but in some ways that's
more of a speech-dispatcher problem (it may have been better if it had a
function to retrieve a list of voice names that clients could use, rather
than this set number).
From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing
>I have just downloaded it and installed it, seems to be working fine at
> the moment, and I am glad that there is now a espeak specific module.
> One question about the espeak module, how can I change the voice? I have
> tried setting the default voice in speechd.conf to FEMALE1 but it seems
> to not have changed anything (even after restarting speech-dispatcher,
> and even after a machine restart to make sure it did reload). Is it that
> the espeak module doesn't support the different voices?
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 00:09 -0700, Hynek Hanke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the Brailcom organization would like to ask for help with testing
>> Speech Dispatcher version 0.6.4 Beta1 for the upcomming release.
>>
>> You can download the distribution tarball at
>> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.6.4beta1.tar.gz
>>
>> What is new in 0.6.4?
>> - Native output module for eSpeak (thanks to Lukas Loehrer)
>> (called espeak, not espeak-generic)
>> - Support for punctuation settings in the Generic output module
>> (thanks to Steve Holmes)
>> - Default audio output for all modules switched to ALSA
>> - Support for listing output modules and voices supported by
>> a synthesizer
>> - Bug fixes (SMP related bugs, bugs in libspeechd and others)
>>
>> How to report bugs?
>>
>> Please report bugs at <speechd@bugs.freebsoft.org>. For other
>> contact please use <speechd@lists.freebsoft.org>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Hynek Hanke
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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` Michael Whapples
@ ` Lukas Loehrer
` Hynek Hanke
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lukas Loehrer @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Michael Whapples writes ("Re: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.4 beta1 -- request for help with testing"):
> more of a speech-dispatcher problem (it may have been better if it had a
> function to retrieve a list of voice names that clients could use, rather
> than this set number).
As it happens, speech-dispatcher actually supports such a function to
list the available voices in version 0.6.4. It is now up to clients to
make use of it.
Best regards, Lukas
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` Michael Whapples
` Lukas Loehrer
@ ` Hynek Hanke
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Hynek Hanke @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Would be good to have voice mapping control in the module as espeak offers
> so many more voices than speech-dispatcher offers, but in some ways that's
> more of a speech-dispatcher problem (it may have been better if it had a
> function to retrieve a list of voice names that clients could use, rather
> than this set number).
Hi Michael,
Speech Dispatcher can retrieve a list of voice names and set a specific
voice now. I don't know however how we could use that with Speakup since
the current output mechanism doesn't support this. But I'll ask Kirk
about it.
You can still select various eSpeak voices for the various languages by
just switching the language (symbolic voice names like MALE1 etc.
operate under the given language). There is currently only 6 different
voices available for English in eSpeak and much less for the other
languages, so I believe all should now be selectable using these
symbolic voice names.
We have however already designed a more sophisticated mechanism for
the next versions of Dispatcher.
With regards,
Hynek Hanke
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