software synths

[John Heim]

I don't think speechd-up is available as a debian package through a regular 
debian archive.  But I build a deb file and posted it on my web site at the 
University of Wisconsin Department of Mathematics. For instructions on 
installing it, see:

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: software synths


>I don't know if you have worked out how to install all you need, but as you
> said you are using debian, here is a guide. Use apt to get and install the
> stuff for you (use a command such as:
> apt-get install speechd-up speech-dispatcher espeak
> in fact you probably could miss out speech-dispatcher as it should be a
> dependency of speechd-up (not sure, so make sure that speech-dispatcher 
> gets
> installed if you don't specify it). Also the above assumes you wish to use
> espeak. I don't know what versions of the software, so you may wish to get
> the packages from their original sources and compile them yourself (not 
> too
> hard, just make sure you have everything required installed). It may be 
> only
> a few packages which need compiling, eg. speech-dispatcher may be version
> 0.6.4, but if you wish to use espeak with it, then you need above a 
> certain
> version number (to use the espeak specific module), so it might be best to
> compile the latest espeak).
>
> Once the above are installed, you may wish to edit speech-dispatcher's
> configuration files to get espeak as the default module. If you installed
> speech-dispatcher through apt, the configuration file is probably
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, and if from source it probably is
> /usr/local/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf unless you specified 
> otherwise
> in which case you should know where it is. This file is fairly well
> commented, a # symbol indicates a commented out line, some options may 
> need
> un-commenting. to use espeak as default synth, make sure the default synth
> line is uncommented and set to espeak and make sure the espeak module line
> is uncommented in the add module section (you may wish to comment out 
> unused
> modules). Now save and make sure the espeak module is set as you want. 
> This
> is in the modules/espeak.conf file in the speech-dispatcher configuration
> directory (ie. if speech-dispatcher was installed through apt,
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf). The main thing I would 
> suggest
> is to make sure that output is set to alsa (you will need to make sure 
> when
> compiling (if you compile speech-dispatcher) to have alsa support). Use 
> alsa
> as this is the current system for audio output, and offers better features
> (particularly when using software speech, eg. software sound mixing (have
> speech and music at the same time). save this and restart or start if you
> previously didn't start speech-dispatcher to load the new settings, and
> change speakup output to sftsyn (I would use echo sftsyn
> >/proc/speakup/synth_name, but I am not sure how well this works with the
> modular structure used in the debian kernel). Now load speechd-up and you
> should now have software speech from speakup. You can use scripts on 
> startup
> to load speech-dispatcher, speechd-up and change speakup output to sftsyn,
> but I won't list it here, as I am more familiar with slackware start 
> scripts
> than debian ones.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
>
>
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