speakup and festival

speakup and festival

[SergeyFleytin]

Hi, folks! Greetings from Russia! I am new to this list and yew to
linux. Yesterday i downloaded and installed speakup with patches for
using it with festival. I patched both speakup and kernel successfully
and it seemed that everything is correct. But i don't know, which
command i should use to start festival to work as a demon for the
speakup. Any advice on this subject will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Sergey Fleytin

Re: speakup and festival

[Owen Patrick Smith]

You can either use festival --server & or
/path/to/festival/src/scripts/festival_server.sh which acts as the first
but also does some configuration of the server that may be usrful.  I
personally reccommend the shell script but people have reported success
with both.

HtH

Owen

On 28 Apr 2003, SergeyFleytin wrote:

> Hi, folks! Greetings from Russia! I am new to this list and yew to
> linux. Yesterday i downloaded and installed speakup with patches for
> using it with festival. I patched both speakup and kernel successfully
> and it seemed that everything is correct. But i don't know, which
> command i should use to start festival to work as a demon for the
> speakup. Any advice on this subject will be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sergey Fleytin
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>

Re: speakup and festival

[SergeyFleytin]

Hi! Thanks for your Help. I tried `festval --server &' and after that
`middleware'. These commands run successfully without any error
messages but speakup did not speak. So i wonder if i missed something?
Shall i give any command to kernel at startup? To help those who will
be so kind to assist me in solving my problem i include in this
message the output of `dmesg' concerning speakup and usrdev:

usrdev: probe() creating Speakup userland device
usrdev: char_create_init().
Speakup usrdev: Registered as char device major #0
Speakup usrdev: Minor number is 0
Speakup v-1.5: initialized

speakup:  initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)

It seems to me that evrything is OK but i can be mistaken.
Thanks in advance,

Sergey.

>>>>> "OPS" == Owen Patrick Smith <ender3rd@WPI.EDU> writes:

OPS> You can either use festival --server & or
OPS> /path/to/festival/src/scripts/festival_server.sh which acts as
OPS> the first but also does some configuration of the server that may
OPS> be usrful.  I personally reccommend the shell script but people
OPS> have reported success with both.

OPS> HtH

OPS> Owen

OPS> On 28 Apr 2003, SergeyFleytin wrote:

>> Hi, folks! Greetings from Russia! I am new to this list and yew to
>> linux. Yesterday i downloaded and installed speakup with patches
>> for using it with festival. I patched both speakup and kernel
>> successfully and it seemed that everything is correct. But i don't
>> know, which command i should use to start festival to work as a
>> demon for the speakup. Any advice on this subject will be highly
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Sergey Fleytin
>> 
>> _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing
>> list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>> 
>> 
>> 



OPS> _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing
OPS> list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
OPS> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup


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С уважением, 
Сергей Флейтин.

Re: speakup and festival

[Owen Patrick Smith]

Well the device doesn't seem to have been opened.  Did you run
$ mknod -c /dev/usrdev c 252 0
before running middleware?  also did you run any commands after starting
middleware.  We don't currently store any data until someone opens the
device so if you just run middleware it shouldnt say anything until the
next command is typed.

Owen

On 29 Apr 2003, SergeyFleytin wrote:

> Hi! Thanks for your Help. I tried `festval --server &' and after that
> `middleware'. These commands run successfully without any error
> messages but speakup did not speak. So i wonder if i missed something?
> Shall i give any command to kernel at startup? To help those who will
> be so kind to assist me in solving my problem i include in this
> message the output of `dmesg' concerning speakup and usrdev:
>
> usrdev: probe() creating Speakup userland device
> usrdev: char_create_init().
> Speakup usrdev: Registered as char device major #0
> Speakup usrdev: Minor number is 0
> Speakup v-1.5: initialized
>
> speakup:  initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
>
> It seems to me that evrything is OK but i can be mistaken.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sergey.

Re: speakup and festival

[SergeyFleytin]

Hi!
>>>>> "OPS" == Owen Patrick Smith <ender3rd@WPI.EDU> writes:

OPS> Well the device doesn't seem to have been opened.  Did you run $
OPS> mknod -c /dev/usrdev c 252 0 before running middleware 

Yes! That > was my mistake! Thanks! It's talking now. But it seems to
me that speakup keymap does not work. While configuring the kernel i
answered 'yes' to use speakup keymap by default. But it does not
work. Then i tried loading manually speakupmap.map found in the
archive, bot loadkeys outputs a lot of error messages and refuses to
load the keymap. I tried to replace any symbolic descriptions in
speakupmap.map with digital ones found in Keymap Tutorial but that
text does not have all the commands. What else can i do?

And one more question: is it possible to control speech rate and
volume from within speakup while it works with Festival?

Thanks in advance,

Sergey.

Re: speakup and festival

[Hugh Esco]

Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with 
a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte?  I built a Debian machine 
with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine.  I'd love to make it 
possible for him to hear the computer from startup.  But I had understood 
that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that 
would be possible.  Was I mistaken?

-- Hugh Esco 

Re: speakup and festival

[Owen Patrick Smith]

Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival.  I helped one of the two
projects that can do so.  See the group website at
http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info.  The code is currently working
but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the
summer.  The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with
some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the
boot process.  Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no
longer strictly required for day-to-day usage.

HtH

Owen Smith
ender3rd@wpi.edu

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:

> Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with
> a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte?  I built a Debian machine
> with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine.  I'd love to make it
> possible for him to hear the computer from startup.  But I had understood
> that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that
> would be possible.  Was I mistaken?
>
> -- Hugh Esco
>

Re: speakup and festival

[Owen Patrick Smith]

The keymap issues you are having are beyond my experience so I can't help
you there.  As for festival's speech rate and volume they are not
controllable by speakup right now.  With some effort you can change the
default settings for Festival by manipulating a configuration file, see
the Festival website for details.

HtH,

Owen Smith
ender3rd@wpi.edu

On 3 May 2003, SergeyFleytin wrote:

> Hi!
> >>>>> "OPS" == Owen Patrick Smith <ender3rd@WPI.EDU> writes:
>
> OPS> Well the device doesn't seem to have been opened.  Did you run $
> OPS> mknod -c /dev/usrdev c 252 0 before running middleware
>
> Yes! That > was my mistake! Thanks! It's talking now. But it seems to
> me that speakup keymap does not work. While configuring the kernel i
> answered 'yes' to use speakup keymap by default. But it does not
> work. Then i tried loading manually speakupmap.map found in the
> archive, bot loadkeys outputs a lot of error messages and refuses to
> load the keymap. I tried to replace any symbolic descriptions in
> speakupmap.map with digital ones found in Keymap Tutorial but that
> text does not have all the commands. What else can i do?
>
> And one more question: is it possible to control speech rate and
> volume from within speakup while it works with Festival?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sergey.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>

Re: speakup and festival

[Charles Crawford]

Owen,

	You may not realize this, but your work may be a major turning 
point in the evolution of Linux for blind people.  Thank you!

On Sat, 3 May 
2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote:

> Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival.  I helped one of the two
> projects that can do so.  See the group website at
> http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info.  The code is currently working
> but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the
> summer.  The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with
> some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the
> boot process.  Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no
> longer strictly required for day-to-day usage.
> 
> HtH
> 
> Owen Smith
> ender3rd@wpi.edu
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:
> 
> > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with
> > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte?  I built a Debian machine
> > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine.  I'd love to make it
> > possible for him to hear the computer from startup.  But I had understood
> > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that
> > would be possible.  Was I mistaken?
> >
> > -- Hugh Esco
> >
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

-- 
-- Charlie Crawford

Re: speakup and festival

[Owen Patrick Smith]

I hope so, we were trying to help.  I hope you don't mind us quoting you
in our IQP report.

Owen

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Charles Crawford wrote:

> Owen,
>
> 	You may not realize this, but your work may be a major turning
> point in the evolution of Linux for blind people.  Thank you!
>
> On Sat, 3 May
> 2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote:
>
> > Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival.  I helped one of the two
> > projects that can do so.  See the group website at
> > http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info.  The code is currently working
> > but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the
> > summer.  The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with
> > some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the
> > boot process.  Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no
> > longer strictly required for day-to-day usage.
> >
> > HtH
> >
> > Owen Smith
> > ender3rd@wpi.edu
> >
> > On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:
> >
> > > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with
> > > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte?  I built a Debian machine
> > > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine.  I'd love to make it
> > > possible for him to hear the computer from startup.  But I had understood
> > > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that
> > > would be possible.  Was I mistaken?
> > >
> > > -- Hugh Esco
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> --
> -- Charlie Crawford
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>

Re: speakup and festival

[Charles Crawford]

Go for it!

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote:

> I hope so, we were trying to help.  I hope you don't mind us quoting you
> in our IQP report.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2003, Charles Crawford wrote:
> 
> > Owen,
> >
> > 	You may not realize this, but your work may be a major turning
> > point in the evolution of Linux for blind people.  Thank you!
> >
> > On Sat, 3 May
> > 2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival.  I helped one of the two
> > > projects that can do so.  See the group website at
> > > http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info.  The code is currently working
> > > but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the
> > > summer.  The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with
> > > some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the
> > > boot process.  Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no
> > > longer strictly required for day-to-day usage.
> > >
> > > HtH
> > >
> > > Owen Smith
> > > ender3rd@wpi.edu
> > >
> > > On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote:
> > >
> > > > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with
> > > > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte?  I built a Debian machine
> > > > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine.  I'd love to make it
> > > > possible for him to hear the computer from startup.  But I had understood
> > > > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that
> > > > would be possible.  Was I mistaken?
> > > >
> > > > -- Hugh Esco
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> >
> > --
> > -- Charlie Crawford
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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-- Charlie Crawford