configuring espeak 1.19

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at ftml.net
Mon Jan 29 13:23:30 EST 2007


Thanks, Thomas.

It works now.

Chuck

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Chuck Hallenbeck napsal(a):
> > I want to use the new en-r voice selection. Using speak from the command 
> > line like this, works fine:
> > 
> > speak -v en-r "sample of speech goes here"
> > 
> > but when I add the -v switch to the espeak-module.conf file in the 
> > speech-dispatcher modules directory, it is ignored.
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> you need to tune the voice mapping in your
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf.  This is done by the
> AddVoice directive.  There is a bunch of such directives in the default
> configuration file, so you may just turn the first of them from:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en"
> 
> to:
> 
> AddVoice        "en"    "male1"		"en-r"
> 
> See http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher_10.html#SEC27
> for more details.
> 
> Your GenericExecuteSynth should look like:
> "echo \"$DATA\" | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a
> $VOLUME -p $PITCH --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav"
> 
> Best regards, Tomas.
> 
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