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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