help with espeak?

help with espeak?

[TheCreator]

Hello list,
I'm trying to run espeak. I moved the data dir to /usr/share, and 
when I run it, I don't get any errors, but its not giving me any sound.
Any ideas?
Thanks,

Re: help with espeak?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Check the permissions and owner/group on espeak-data, and the files
that are in there. I found that under Debian at least, the permissions
and owner/group that the espeak distribution has set by default were
what was causing espeak not to speak for me. I found that setting the
espeak-data directory permissions to 755, and the permissions of the
files under espeak-data to 644 was what worked for me. I also have
both the directory and the files in it set to owner root, and group
root. Finally, the permissions on the speak binary are also set to
755, and the owner/group are root as well. 

This is on a stand-alone system, which only I use, and which isn't
hooked up to my network frequently, which is separate from the outside
world anyway, so the above setup doesn't bother me in terms of any
possible security wholes in the slightest.

Also, make sure that speak is in the path. If you're using it via
speech-dispatcher, instead of just having speak in
espeak-generic.conf, you want to supply the full path,
(I.E. /usr/local/bin/speak in my case).

If espeak still doesn't work, especially by itself without
speech-dispatcher, then given that you had problems you said with
another speech engine failing to speak, I'd get your soundcard/speaker
issue resolved first, before moving forward, since that would seem to
be the main problem here in that case.

Greg


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:34:49AM -0600, TheCreator wrote:
> Hello list,
> I'm trying to run espeak. I moved the data dir to /usr/share, and 
> when I run it, I don't get any errors, but its not giving me any sound.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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Re: help with espeak?

[TheCreator]

What do you mean speach-dispatcher? do I haev to have another prog to?
Thanks,At 10:51 AM 9/30/06, you wrote:
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>Check the permissions and owner/group on espeak-data, and the files
>that are in there. I found that under Debian at least, the permissions
>and owner/group that the espeak distribution has set by default were
>what was causing espeak not to speak for me. I found that setting the
>espeak-data directory permissions to 755, and the permissions of the
>files under espeak-data to 644 was what worked for me. I also have
>both the directory and the files in it set to owner root, and group
>root. Finally, the permissions on the speak binary are also set to
>755, and the owner/group are root as well.
>
>This is on a stand-alone system, which only I use, and which isn't
>hooked up to my network frequently, which is separate from the outside
>world anyway, so the above setup doesn't bother me in terms of any
>possible security wholes in the slightest.
>
>Also, make sure that speak is in the path. If you're using it via
>speech-dispatcher, instead of just having speak in
>espeak-generic.conf, you want to supply the full path,
>(I.E. /usr/local/bin/speak in my case).
>
>If espeak still doesn't work, especially by itself without
>speech-dispatcher, then given that you had problems you said with
>another speech engine failing to speak, I'd get your soundcard/speaker
>issue resolved first, before moving forward, since that would seem to
>be the main problem here in that case.
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:34:49AM -0600, TheCreator wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > I'm trying to run espeak. I moved the data dir to /usr/share, and
> > when I run it, I don't get any errors, but its not giving me any sound.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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Re: help with espeak?

[Gregory Nowak]

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That depends. If you are just wanting to use espeak itself, for the
purpose of making wave files out of text files for example, then no,
you shouldn't need anything else. If however, you're wanting to use
espeak as a software TTS engine for use with speakup, then you
definitely need more then espeak, you would need speech-dispatcher,
and speechd-up besides espeak for use with speakup. While all of this
isn't too tough to setup if you read the docs and follow instructions
to the letter, I would say that it isn't a walk in the park either,
especially for a newby. 

All the possible issues you might run into while setting all of this
up have been covered here in the past at various times, sometimes more
then once. So, looking through the list archives would be the best
thing to do if you have issues that the documentation for all of these
packages doesn't address.

You can find speech-dispatcher and speechd-up at:

http://www.freebsoft.org

. You can also install speech-dispatcher as a debian package from the
main debian repository, and a debian package of speechd-up can be
found in the grml package repository, for which I don't remember the
URL off the top of my head, and I'm currently not at the system where
I have that URL stored.

Greg


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:54:00AM -0600, TheCreator wrote:
> What do you mean speach-dispatcher? do I haev to have another prog to?
> Thanks,




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Re: help with espeak?

[TheCreator]

Hello,
Thanks. I'll check those out.
Laters, and thanks again,
~~TheCreator~~
At 11:07 AM 9/30/06, you wrote:
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>That depends. If you are just wanting to use espeak itself, for the
>purpose of making wave files out of text files for example, then no,
>you shouldn't need anything else. If however, you're wanting to use
>espeak as a software TTS engine for use with speakup, then you
>definitely need more then espeak, you would need speech-dispatcher,
>and speechd-up besides espeak for use with speakup. While all of this
>isn't too tough to setup if you read the docs and follow instructions
>to the letter, I would say that it isn't a walk in the park either,
>especially for a newby.
>
>All the possible issues you might run into while setting all of this
>up have been covered here in the past at various times, sometimes more
>then once. So, looking through the list archives would be the best
>thing to do if you have issues that the documentation for all of these
>packages doesn't address.
>
>You can find speech-dispatcher and speechd-up at:
>
>http://www.freebsoft.org
>
>. You can also install speech-dispatcher as a debian package from the
>main debian repository, and a debian package of speechd-up can be
>found in the grml package repository, for which I don't remember the
>URL off the top of my head, and I'm currently not at the system where
>I have that URL stored.
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:54:00AM -0600, TheCreator wrote:
> > What do you mean speach-dispatcher? do I haev to have another prog to?
> > Thanks,
>
>
>
>
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