problem with speechd-up and Pico

problem with speechd-up and Pico

[Manuel Cortéz]

Hello all,

I'm running speakup with speechd-up in Debian Stable. Speech Dispatcher 
is configured to use pulseaudio, pulse starts in system mode and 
everything seems to be OK if you're going to use espeak. However if I 
want to use another voice, for example Pico (pico-generic.conf in spd's 
modules), it doesn't work. I have mate installed and if I use spd-say 
from the normal user it works and I can see pico in the output modules, 
but I can't get it to work in speechd-up. I have changed everything as 
needed in the root directory (I had to configure spd for root and allow 
pulse to give access to this user in order to get speechd-up to work, 
maybe I did something wrong here?), but it seems it doesn't matter what 
I change, it just doesn't work.

If I change the default-language in spd (in the root user's settings) it 
works, but nothing about modules.

Does someone know how to make speechd-up to work with other synths?

Thanks in advance.

Re: problem with speechd-up and Pico

[Mark Peveto]

Hmm, I'm gonna have to find my vinux flash drive and try it.  I got it working for a while, but I don't remember how.  I'll try it otmorrow.  I just
came off chemo today.


Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Manuel Cortéz wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm running speakup with speechd-up in Debian Stable. Speech Dispatcher
> is configured to use pulseaudio, pulse starts in system mode and
> everything seems to be OK if you're going to use espeak. However if I
> want to use another voice, for example Pico (pico-generic.conf in spd's
> modules), it doesn't work. I have mate installed and if I use spd-say
> from the normal user it works and I can see pico in the output modules,
> but I can't get it to work in speechd-up. I have changed everything as
> needed in the root directory (I had to configure spd for root and allow
> pulse to give access to this user in order to get speechd-up to work,
> maybe I did something wrong here?), but it seems it doesn't matter what
> I change, it just doesn't work.
>
> If I change the default-language in spd (in the root user's settings) it
> works, but nothing about modules.
>
> Does someone know how to make speechd-up to work with other synths?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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>

Re: problem with speechd-up and Pico

[Manuel Cortéz]

It seems I have fixed the problem by building the last version of spd 
(0.8.6) from sources, and now Pico has a native binary module, that 
seems to work well both in normal user and root user.


El 23/01/2017 a las 02:10 p. m., Manuel Cortéz escribió:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running speakup with speechd-up in Debian Stable. Speech 
> Dispatcher is configured to use pulseaudio, pulse starts in system 
> mode and everything seems to be OK if you're going to use espeak. 
> However if I want to use another voice, for example Pico 
> (pico-generic.conf in spd's modules), it doesn't work. I have mate 
> installed and if I use spd-say from the normal user it works and I can 
> see pico in the output modules, but I can't get it to work in 
> speechd-up. I have changed everything as needed in the root directory 
> (I had to configure spd for root and allow pulse to give access to 
> this user in order to get speechd-up to work, maybe I did something 
> wrong here?), but it seems it doesn't matter what I change, it just 
> doesn't work.
>
> If I change the default-language in spd (in the root user's settings) 
> it works, but nothing about modules.
>
> Does someone know how to make speechd-up to work with other synths?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup