Espeakup and other language than english

[Willem van der Walt]

There are ways to change the espeak default voice as well.
Some of these ways are plain ugly, but it works in some cases.
1.  copy the espeak voice file for your language to 
/usr/share/espeak/voices/default.
This should work if the software calling espeak does not specify a voice.
2.  If the calling software specify let us say en as the default language, 
and now it gets ugly,
  copy /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/en/en to 
/usr/share/espeak-data/voices/en/english, then copy e.g. 
/usr/share/espeak-data/voices/af /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/en/en.
in most cases, this would fool espeak into thinking it is speaking 
English, but it would actually speak the language of the language file you 
have copied over the en file.
This might blow up in one's face, but in the few cases where I were forced 
to go with this approach, it did not blow up in mine.
When one then again really want English, one should copy the 
/usr/share/espeak-data/voices/en/english file back to the en file.
HTH, Willem



On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, William Hubbs wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:44:38PM +0200, Micha? Dziwisz wrote:
> > I installed the GRML distribution with build in Espeak and Espeakup. All is 
> > ok, but how how can I switch Espeak to my native language whih is polish? I 
> > tried modify speechd.conf file by unhashing and seting the DefaultLanguage 
> > value to a "pl", without results.
> 
> Which version of espeakup does grml have installed?  If it is older than
> 0.60 there is no way to set the default voice.
> 
> If it is newer, you have to do two things:
> 
> First, as root, type this command:
> 
> echo 1 >/sys/module/speakup/parameters/direct
> 
> Then some how pass --default-voice=pl on the command line that starts
> espeakup.
> 
> Let me know if you need any more assistance with this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William
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