GRML with Festival/Speakup/Speech-Dispatcher

GRML with Festival/Speakup/Speech-Dispatcher

[Eric Magnus]

Hi,

 

 

I'm trying to remaster grml with festival instead of flite (which is
already included).  Has anyone successfully done this, and if so, how?
The grml swspeak boot option seems to only work with flite.  I've
installed festival and speech-dispatcher-festival with apt-get and set
the speechd.conf file for festival default, but I can't seem to get it
working - is there something I'm missing?

 

 

Thanks,

 


Eric

Re: GRML with Festival/Speakup/Speech-Dispatcher

[Michael Prokop]

* Eric Magnus <emagnus@proactusa.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to remaster grml with festival instead of flite (which is
> already included).  Has anyone successfully done this, and if so, how?
> The grml swspeak boot option seems to only work with flite.  I've
> installed festival and speech-dispatcher-festival with apt-get and set
> the speechd.conf file for festival default, but I can't seem to get it
> working - is there something I'm missing?

I used festival only in interactive mode without
speech-dispatcher-festival so far.

But I can help you of course in the remastering related stuff.
If you tell me what to do I could extend the swspeak code to support
festival as well.

Just drop me a mail with further details.

-mika-
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Re: GRML with Festival/Speakup/Speech-Dispatcher

[Tomas Cerha]

Michael Prokop napsal(a):
> But I can help you of course in the remastering related stuff.
> If you tell me what to do I could extend the swspeak code to support
> festival as well.

Hello,

don't you think It would be better to support speech-dispatcher instead
of festival directly and thus gain the support of all speech-dispatcher
supported synthesizers at once?  You get a higher level API and all the
abstraction for free...

Best regards, Tomas Cerha.

OT: GAIM with Orca

[guy schlosser]

Hey all, sorry for the off-topic nature of this post, but I'm having 
a problem I'd like to bounce off someone and see what could be 
causing it.  First off, good going Tomas, with the backend for Orca 
and Speech-dispatcher.  I installed it, and got Orca successfully 
working with Espeak.  Now for my question.  When I launched GAIM 
yesterday, I could not read the buddy list.  When I used the up and 
down arrows, I would here nothing.  I reran orca --setup, because I 
didn't here "switching to focus tracking mode" on bootup, but now 
Gaim won't stay open at all.  I get to the dialogue that says that I 
have mail, hit the close button, and go straight back to the 
desktop.  Also, how do I get sounds to play at the same time as 
Orca?  For example, MP3 files, etc.  Is there any plugins I need to 
install in Fedora 6 to get MP3 support?  As always, thanks in advance 
for the help.


Guy

Re: OT: GAIM with Orca

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Finally someone else is having my Gaim buddy list problem.  I'm not
alone after all.

As for Gaim not staying open, it would seem that it may actually be open
but your buddy list is closed.  You need to alt-control-tab to your top
panel and use the keypad keys to find and click on the word "panel".
Unfortunately this is all the Gaim icon will say when you hit it with
the flat review keys.  Then just use the / key on the keypad to click on
it.  Your buddy list should open up and you should be set to go other
than your initial problem of not being able to read it with the arrows.
You will still be able to access the buddy list via the flat review keys
if you go into the buddies menu and check "show offline buddies".  I
don't know why this works but it does.  Unfortunately you still won't be
able to hear anything using the arrow keys.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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Re: OT: GAIM with Orca

[Tomas Cerha]

Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> As for Gaim not staying open, it would seem that it may actually be open
> but your buddy list is closed.  You need to alt-control-tab to your top
> panel and use the keypad keys to find and click on the word "panel".
> Unfortunately this is all the Gaim icon will say when you hit it with
> the flat review keys.  Then just use the / key on the keypad to click on
> it.  Your buddy list should open up and you should be set to go other
> than your initial problem of not being able to read it with the arrows.
> You will still be able to access the buddy list via the flat review keys
> if you go into the buddies menu and check "show offline buddies".  I
> don't know why this works but it does.  Unfortunately you still won't be
> able to hear anything using the arrow keys.

Hello,

I don't use gaim so can't help, but I suggest moving this thread to the
Orca mailing list (orca-list@gnome.org), where it belongs and where you
also have much greater chance to find someone able to help...

Best regards, Tomas.

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Re: GRML with Festival/Speakup/Speech-Dispatcher

[Michael Prokop]

* Tomas Cerha <cerha@brailcom.org> wrote:
> Michael Prokop napsal(a):
>> But I can help you of course in the remastering related stuff.
>> If you tell me what to do I could extend the swspeak code to support
>> festival as well.

> don't you think It would be better to support speech-dispatcher instead
> of festival directly and thus gain the support of all speech-dispatcher
> supported synthesizers at once?  You get a higher level API and all the
> abstraction for free...

grml does support and use speech-dispatcher already. :-) The bootoption
swspeak does nothing else than starting /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher
and running a "echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name".

So all which would have to be done is to check out integration of
speech-dispatcher-festival itself.

-mika-
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