IBMtts speakup connector AUR package

IBMtts speakup connector AUR package

[Michael Whapples]

  Hello,
For those of you who use archlinux and IBMtts I have created a speakup 
connector package in AUR under the name spk-connect-ttsynth. This 
includes a start up script called spk-connect, so if you want it to 
start at start up then add spk-connect to the daemons array in /etc/rc.conf.

Michael Whapples

Re: IBMtts speakup connector AUR package

[Christopher Moore]

Michael,
Nice job on the speakup-connector package.  I installed it without a hitch.

The Voxin installer wasn't designed with arch linux in mind.  
Fortunately I was able to copy the necessary files from a previous 
installation.  It's 
actually quite simple.

1.  From your previous installation, make two tar.gz files from /opt/IBM 
and /var/opt/IBM.

2.  untar the files on your new system with a command like:
cd /; sudo tar zxvf file1.tar.gz

3. make symlinks in /usr/lib for the two libraries:
libibmeci.so and libetidev.so

You can use the say program to test it although in my case 
I had to stop espeakup to free the soundcard.

The suggestion about installing the libstdc++296 package also worked for me.  
This saved me the pain of dealing with a .deb package supplied with voxin.

Finally, another tool I have discovered is yaourt.  This is a front-end 
to the standard arch package manager (pacman).
It makes it easy to search for and install packages from the aur 
as well as those included with arch.

Chris
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:51:51PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
>  Hello,
> For those of you who use archlinux and IBMtts I have created a
> speakup connector package in AUR under the name spk-connect-ttsynth.
> This includes a start up script called spk-connect, so if you want
> it to start at start up then add spk-connect to the daemons array in
> /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Michael Whapples
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