question about speakup and speechd-up

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 09:57:37 EST 2010


Voxin can be used in 64-bit land but it's a bit harder.  I'm using
voxin right now in 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic.  Basically, you have to
compile speech-dispatcher on a 32-bit machine that already has voxin
installed.  That creates the 32-bit binaries, which are
/usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_ibmtts, and
/usr/lib/libsd-audio.so.2.02.  You have to copy these to the correct
directories on your 64-bit machine, which is the same directory for
sd_lib, but the /usr/lib32 directory for libsd-audio.  You also have
to make a symlink from libsd-audio.so and libsd-audio.so.2 to
libsd-audio.so.2.0.2.

Bill

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Berkó Norbert <berko.norbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The espeakup would be a good idea, but since i'm using pulseaudio, espeakup
> doesn't read the end of words. Now i'm using an espeakup package which was
> created with portaudio support. If i would like  to use with pulseaudio
> support, espeak sais nothing.
> I would like to use another TTS but orca needs espeak cause the hungarian
> language. Which synthesizer do you recommend? Can i install Voxin under
> 64bit? I like to know how the espeakup can be used with pulseaudio. Can
> somebody write it for me step by step?
>
> Norbert
>
>
>> If you just use espeak, I think you can 'sudo apt-get remove
>> speechd-up', and 'sudo apt-get install espeakup'.  That tends to be
>> how most people use it, I think.  I use speechd-up, because I love the
>> voxin ibmtts voice for speech-dispatcher.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Berkó Norbert<berko.norbert at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have troubles with configuring speakup.
>>> The install works fine under 9.10 with Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up
>>> from
>>> Lucid, and i am pleased with collaboration of Pulseaudio and Orca. I
>>> start
>>> Speech-dispatcher and Speechd-up on system-wide-daemon.
>>> What shall i do to not to say "capital" at the beginning of a word?
>>> I configured the rate and pitch, and saved with speakupconf, and now it
>>> loads my settings at every system boot.
>>> I would like to hear only those punctuations like in Orca. For example
>>> not
>>> to say colon, dash, comma or period at the end of a sentence. I found in
>>> /etc/speakup the following files: punct_all, punct_some, punct_none,
>>> punct_level. How can i modify my settings?
>>> My last question would be that is it possible, to use Espeakup with
>>> speakup
>>> if the Pulseaudio is enabled on system-wide-daemon? The speech-dispatcher
>>> is
>>> running too system-wide-daemon according to Bill Cox's instructions.
>>> May it help that compile an espeak with Pulseaudio support? Cause i just
>>> use
>>> this synthesizer.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your answer
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Norbert
>>>
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