Re: GRML swspeak?

Re: GRML swspeak?

[tony seth]

Hi there:  Just curious, if I want to use espeak instead of flite, am I 
understanding that I can't do that from the grml boot prompt then using 
the grml swspeak command?
How do I set that up so that if I do the grml2hd install so I use speak 
instead of flite?  Thanks much... cheereo!

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Re: GRML swspeak?

[Hermann]

Hi,
you must set up Espeak as the default synth. To do this, check out the 
following files:
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
/etc&speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf
When you install grml to your harddrive, make sure you've carefully read 
all the questions put during the procedure. One of it deals with the fact 
whether you want to start your system using assistive applications.
There's a grml mailinglist, for details see the grml site.
Hermann

Re: GRML swspeak?

[Jeremy]

To be quite honest, I haven't tried yet. I will do that and get back 
to the list on what happens. Just wanted to see if anyone had any 
ideas of what was going on. Thanks for getting back.

Re: GRML swspeak?

[Gregory Nowak]

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I'm guessing this could be a combination of the emulated sound
hardware in vmware, and of festival itself. If you boot the cd on your
physical box, do you still have this issue? Can you understand what is
being said?

Greg


On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 07:41:04PM -0600, Jeremy wrote:
> Hope this still goes with this subject. I tried running the newest 
> grml earlier today, 1.0 in vmware and had a very odd thing happen. I 
> did get speach, but, it was studdering really bad and had lowd pops 
> at the start of every word so I could bearly understand anything it 
> was saying. This happend two times, when I typed grml swspeak at the 
> boot prompt, it took about 10 seconds, and I got some speach, but, I 
> could not understand anything it said, and, then, after it finished 
> booting, I typed swspeak as it says to do in the cheat codes for grml 
> and I once again had speach. I could not understand this either. As I 
> said, it has some very lowd hissing pops that almost completely cover 
> the speach, so, very hard to understand anything. I also noticed that 
> in the cheat code notes, it said something about a vmware code that I 
> could use at the prompt, but, I did not understand how to use it. I 
> have not had any problems getting any other distro to boot with 
> speach, such as ubuntu using orca, orilux, debian using speakup and 
> my doubletalk lt, etc. So, maybe I am just doing something wrong, or, 
> it's something with grml itself? If someone can give me some idea of 
> what to do to fix it, or, point me to something to read, I would be greatful.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: GRML swspeak?

[Jeremy]

Hope this still goes with this subject. I tried running the newest 
grml earlier today, 1.0 in vmware and had a very odd thing happen. I 
did get speach, but, it was studdering really bad and had lowd pops 
at the start of every word so I could bearly understand anything it 
was saying. This happend two times, when I typed grml swspeak at the 
boot prompt, it took about 10 seconds, and I got some speach, but, I 
could not understand anything it said, and, then, after it finished 
booting, I typed swspeak as it says to do in the cheat codes for grml 
and I once again had speach. I could not understand this either. As I 
said, it has some very lowd hissing pops that almost completely cover 
the speach, so, very hard to understand anything. I also noticed that 
in the cheat code notes, it said something about a vmware code that I 
could use at the prompt, but, I did not understand how to use it. I 
have not had any problems getting any other distro to boot with 
speach, such as ubuntu using orca, orilux, debian using speakup and 
my doubletalk lt, etc. So, maybe I am just doing something wrong, or, 
it's something with grml itself? If someone can give me some idea of 
what to do to fix it, or, point me to something to read, I would be greatful.

Re: GRML swspeak?

[Gregory Nowak]

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It's possible that grml didn't detect your sound card, or if you have
multiple sound cards in your system, it's using a card other than the
one your speakers are hooked up to. While software speech on a livecd
is pretty good, it still isn't perfect.

Greg



On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:18:31AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hiya,
>     I've downloaded GRML 1.0, and burned it successfully to a CD.  The ISO image checksums match up alright, but for some reason the grml swspeak option doesn't seem to work.
> Has this feature changed in 1.0?  Is it a different keyword?
> Thanks,
> Zack.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: GRML swspeak?

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    Same goes for me.  I'd specifically like to use Espeak.

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To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: GRML swspeak?


>I found that I had to wait several seconds after typing "grml swspeak" to 
>press enter; otherwise, I got no speech.  I also found that the speech went 
>character by boring character as it read text that came onto the screen:  I 
>had to use speakup's reading commands to get the reading right.
>
> Can you tell me where the info is on setting up another synth manually? 
> I'd like to try something other than flite.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Al
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> From: "Hermann" <steppenwolf2@onlinehome.de>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: GRML swspeak?
>
>
>> Hi,
>> swspeak does work excellent under grml 1.0.
>> Did you type the word when the CD stops the first time? If not, it is not
>> available. Which synth do you use? If you want a synth other then flite,
>> which is standard on the CD, you must set it up manually.
>> Note: The grml team included espeak into the package, and in English it
>> works well, although there are some problems with other languages (I
>> informed the team).
>> Hermann
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>>
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Re: GRML swspeak?

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

I found that I had to wait several seconds after typing "grml swspeak" to press enter; otherwise, I got no speech.  I also found that the speech went character by boring character as it read text that came onto the screen:  I had to use speakup's reading commands to get the reading right.

Can you tell me where the info is on setting up another synth manually?  I'd like to try something other than flite.

Thanks!

Al
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From: "Hermann" <steppenwolf2@onlinehome.de>
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Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: GRML swspeak?


> Hi,
> swspeak does work excellent under grml 1.0.
> Did you type the word when the CD stops the first time? If not, it is not
> available. Which synth do you use? If you want a synth other then flite,
> which is standard on the CD, you must set it up manually.
> Note: The grml team included espeak into the package, and in English it
> works well, although there are some problems with other languages (I
> informed the team).
> Hermann
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
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Re: GRML swspeak?

[Hermann]

Hi,
swspeak does work excellent under grml 1.0.
Did you type the word when the CD stops the first time? If not, it is not
available. Which synth do you use? If you want a synth other then flite,
which is standard on the CD, you must set it up manually.
Note: The grml team included espeak into the package, and in English it
works well, although there are some problems with other languages (I
informed the team).
Hermann

GRML swspeak?

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I've downloaded GRML 1.0, and burned it successfully to a CD.  The ISO image checksums match up alright, but for some reason the grml swspeak option doesn't seem to work.
Has this feature changed in 1.0?  Is it a different keyword?
Thanks,
Zack.