speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech

[Michael Whapples]

> OK, I think that the problem is no alsa support being compiled in 
> speech-dispatcher, as I said before get the dev alsa library package, and 
> re-compile speech-dispatcher.
>
> Earlier versions than the current espeak does work, it just won't be able 
> to select a voice, so you probably do want to to update espeak, just use 
> the latest version at http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html
>
> You probably don't need to do anything with portaudio if you use the linux 
> compiled version, but if you wish to compile from source then you need to 
> get the dev portaudio package. Also when installing, make sure you put the 
> headers in the include dir as speech-dispatcher will need it to compile 
> the espeak module (if you have installed the libespeak-dev package then it 
> should be OK).
>
> Also when you copy the libespeak shared library to your lib directory, 
> change the link /usr/lib/libespeak.so and /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 to that 
> library.
>
> Let us know if you get it working, I think the espeak module has improved 
> the performance with orca, wonder if you find it does as well.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:12 PM
> Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech
>
>
>> Hey there Michael, and thanks for the quick reply.  What is the easiest 
>> way to install the newest espeak under ubuntu 7.04?  Do I just download 
>> the zip file from sourceforge and compile the source?  Do I need 
>> libportaudio or anything like that?  I have disabled every module except 
>> for the two that I'm trying to get working.  The modules I'm using are 
>> espeak (not espeak-generic), and ibmtts.  Again, thanks in advance for 
>> the help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Guy
>>
>>
>>
>> At 12:49 PM 7/16/2007, you wrote:
>>>If you want alsa support, you will need the dev alsa packages as well
>>>(probably something like libasound2-dev).
>>>
>>>Also you may want to install the latest version of espeak if you are 
>>>using
>>>the espeak specific module (the module called espeak, not espeak-generic) 
>>>as
>>>earlier versions don't support changing the espeak voice through
>>>speech-dispatcher.
>>>
>>>Also try disabling any modules you don't actually want, while it doesn't
>>>solve the problem being there in speech-dispatcher, it removes it for 
>>>you.
>>>
>>>So if you still get errors with modules you need, say which ones you are
>>>using (I suggest using the speech-dispatcher names as there the two 
>>>espeak
>>>modules, espeak and espeak-generic, and things are different for these 
>>>two
>>>modules).
>>>
>>>From
>>>Michael Whapples
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
>>>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>>Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:38 PM
>>>Subject: Fwd: speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech
>>>
>>>
>>> >I forgot to mention in my previous post that I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 
>>> >with
>>> >Espeak 1.25.  Again, thanks in advance for the help.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Guy
>>> >
>>> >>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:12:42 -0400
>>> >>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>>> >>From: Guy Schlosser <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
>>> >>Subject: speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech
>>> >>
>>> >>Hi all, I installed the speech-dispatcher 0.6.4 beta 1 today, and have 
>>> >>a
>>> >>few problems.  Not sure if they are a problem with the beta or 
>>> >>something
>>> >>on my system, but if someone could help me sort it out, it would be
>>> >>greatly appreciated.  When I rebooted my computer after install, and
>>> >>recompiling the python bindings, I get no speech.  I then got orca 
>>> >>back to
>>> >>a speakable state, and found the following problems when I examined
>>> >>/var/log/speechd.log, I see the message "bad syntax from module 
>>> >>Espeak. I
>>> >>also see some problems with module ibmtts.  The messages are: Broken 
>>> >>pipe
>>> >>to module and library not compiled with alsa support.  Anyone have any
>>> >>suggestions?  As always, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> >>
>>> >>Thanks much in advance,
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>Guy
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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