IBMTTS on slackware

Nick Stockton nstockton at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 17:46:49 EDT 2008 

hmmm haven't used slackware sence 11.0 but yes that's why it was a bit 
harder.
also I had to get the IBMTTS SDK from sourceforge in order to compile the 
ttsynth_say and spk-connect-ttsynth programs.
ttsynth already has the files needed to compile them built in.
I see though that voxin has been updated since I baut it.
So maybe they have added in the stuff from the SDK.
If not you can get it from
http://ibmtts-sdk.sourceforge.net/
You will still have to do the business of copying all the include files in 
viavoice's inc directory to the /usr/include directory and making links to 
all the files in viavoice's lib directory to /usr/lib unless voxin fixed 
this since I baut it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: IBMTTS on slackware


>I am happy enough recompiling the kernel, but I have just checked the
> slackware 12.1 configuration and it appears this is already done,
> cryptoloop is a module and aes options seem to be compiled in.
>
> I think my next step is to contact voxin and get a copy.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:39 -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
>> Voxin requires a kernel recompile to build the cryptoloop and aes
>> modules.
>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 01:42:05PM +0100, Michael Whapples
>> wrote:
>> > Good to hear that it is possible. Can I ask why you say voxin will be
>> > more of a problem? Considering the significant difference in price I
>> > would prefer to get voxin if possible. Its the high price of TTSynth
>> > which had made me question so much whether it would be worth the money,
>> > the question wasn't so high for voxin until you said that it might be
>> > more difficult on slackware. Might it be less painful if I were to use
>> > GRML for certain parts of voxin's install?
>> >
>> > I may discuss things with the voxin people to see if I could get them 
>> > to
>> > help me sort out a slackware version of voxin.
>> >
>> > Michael Whapples
>> > On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 18:01 -0400, Nick Stockton wrote:
>> > > I know it's doable because I helped a friend set up their copy of 
>> > > ttsynth on
>> > > their slackware box a while back.
>> > > I forget if it was slackware version 11 or 12 but I think the process 
>> > > would
>> > > be the same for eather one.
>> > > I've not ever seen any instructions on the speakup list on how to do 
>> > > it so
>> > > I'll write down what I did here.
>> > > Lucky for you I saved the commands I enterd to a text file so I'd 
>> > > know how
>> > > it was done although I'm using voxin which I got for $5 and am 
>> > > running it
>> > > under debian.
>> > > Note: this is for ttsynth under slackware. Voxin would be quite alot 
>> > > harder
>> > > to get working under slackware so you better get ttsynth.
>> > > I've also prepended the commands with '$ ' in case my email client 
>> > > tries to
>> > > wrap commands to the next line. So you'll be able to see where each 
>> > > line
>> > > begins.
>> > > You will need to run all the commands as root. You also need to have 
>> > > alien
>> > > installed.
>> > > If you don't want to find, download, compile and install alien and 
>> > > all the
>> > > dependencies from source to your copy of slackware then you might 
>> > > want to
>> > > download GRML and use it only to run the alien commands.
>> > > --------------------
>> > > $ wget
>> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb
>> > > $ alien -t -c -k libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb
>> > > $ installpkg libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2-2.95.4.tgz
>> > > $ ldconfig
>> > > $ alien -t -c -k ttsynthcore-1.0-i386.deb
>> > > $ installpkg ttsynthcore-1.0.tgz
>> > > $ ln -s /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/enu50.so /usr/lib/enu50.so
>> > > $ ln -s /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/enumfilt.so /usr/lib/enumfilt.so
>> > > $ ln -s /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/ssmlfilter.so /usr/lib/ssmlfilter.so
>> > > $ cp /opt/IBM/ibmtts/inc/* /usr/include/
>> > > $ ldconfig
>> > > $ I know it's doable because I helped a friend set up their copy of 
>> > > ttsynth
>> > > on their slackware box.
>> > > I forget if it was slackware version 11 or 12 but I think the process 
>> > > would
>> > > be the same for eather one.
>> > > I've not ever seen any instructions on the speakup list on how to do 
>> > > it so
>> > > I'll write down what I did here.
>> > > Lucky for you I saved the commands I enterd to a text file so I'd 
>> > > know how
>> > > it was done although I'm using voxin which I got for $5 and am 
>> > > running it
>> > > under debian.
>> > > Note: this is for ttsynth under slackware. Voxin would be quite alot 
>> > > harder
>> > > to get working under slackware so you better get ttsynth.
>> > > I've also prepended the commands with '$ ' in case my email client 
>> > > tries to
>> > > wrap commands to the next line. So you'll be able to see where each 
>> > > line
>> > > begins.
>> > > You will need to run all the commands as root. You also need to have 
>> > > alien
>> > > installed.
>> > > If you don't want to find, download, compile and install alien and 
>> > > all the
>> > > dependencies from source to your copy of slackware then you might 
>> > > want to
>> > > download GRML and use it to run the alien commands.
>> > > --------------------
>> > > $ wget
>> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb
>> > > $ alien -t -c -k libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb
>> > > $ installpkg libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2-2.95.4.tgz
>> > > $ ldconfig
>> > > $ alien -t -c -k ttsynthcore-1.0-i386.deb
>> > > $ installpkg ttsynthcore-1.0.tgz
>> > > $ ln -s /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/enu50.so /usr/lib/enu50.so
>> > > $ ln -s /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/enumfilt.so /usr/lib/enumfilt.so
>> > > $ ln -s /opt/IBM/ibmtts/lib/ssmlfilter.so /usr/lib/ssmlfilter.so
>> > > $ cp /opt/IBM/ibmtts/inc/* /usr/include/
>> > > $ ldconfig
>> > > $ mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26
>> > > --------------------
>> > > Hope this helps.
>> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > > From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com>
>> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> > > Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:33 PM
>> > > Subject: IBMTTS on slackware
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > Hello,
>> > > > I know this has come up before, but I can't remember any actual 
>> > > > final
>> > > > conclusion.
>> > > >
>> > > > Whilst I thought espeak was fast enough, I found I had to use a 
>> > > > windows
>> > > > machine last week, and it reminded me how I do actually use 
>> > > > eloquence in
>> > > > windows faster than I have espeak. This has got me thinking whether 
>> > > > I
>> > > > should get IBMTTS for linux, but I have a few questions.
>> > > >
>> > > > I know that IBMTTS requires an old compatibility library, which I 
>> > > > am
>> > > > unsure is provided in slackware. So how could I go about trying to 
>> > > > get
>> > > > this library? Does anyone know of a suitable slackware package for 
>> > > > it?
>> > > > If not how might I go about providing this myself from source (I 
>> > > > had a
>> > > > look around for the source code I might need, but all libstdc++ 
>> > > > seems to
>> > > > have numbers such as 6.0.x etc much highrt than what the TTSynth 
>> > > > site
>> > > > suggests, 2.9.6 or 2.9.5). Could it be possible to use a package 
>> > > > from a
>> > > > different distribution, eg. I remember back in the days when I used
>> > > > trplayer, I could use rpm2tgz to convert the realplayer 8 package 
>> > > > into a
>> > > > slackware package and it worked fine, but I suspect that for 
>> > > > libstdc++
>> > > > compatibility libraries things may not be so simple.
>> > > >
>> > > > This brings me on to another question, whether to use voxin or 
>> > > > ttsynth?
>> > > > The ttsynth website says there won't be any support provided, so I 
>> > > > guess
>> > > > this means if I buy ttsynth and can't get it working then I am on 
>> > > > my own
>> > > > and may have wasted money on it. Might things be better with voxin,
>> > > > their website says that voxin includes the libstdc++ compatibility
>> > > > library (I guess for debian or ubuntu as those are the distros
>> > > > mentioned).
>> > > >
>> > > > Alternatively I am wondering whether it would be best save the 
>> > > > money and
>> > > > stick with espeak as it is good and works, where as ibmtts sounds 
>> > > > like I
>> > > > may hit all sorts of compatibility issues and potentially have no
>> > > > support from the seller.
>> > > >
>> > > > Michael Whapples
>> > > >
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