ibmtts speakup connector

Wed Oct 6 10:42:30 EDT 2010

I am not using speakup connecter myself, but at home i do use espeakup 
which is based on that code.  What I have done there is to killall 
espeakup&&sleep 1&&espeakup -Vaf
to get afrikaans and the same but with -Ven to get back to English.  as 
espeakup is based on the same code, one might look for tips to change the 
source of connecter to accept a language parameter.  The latest versions 
of speakup has, as I think you know, better support for more than one 
language, so if that is set correctly one can get it to talk in the 
language of your choice.  The accents seem to have some thing to do with 
the LANG variable's setting, but I also want to get that working although 
it would be for use with either espeakup or speech-dispatcher/opentts.
What I know, is that speakup would handle the accented characters that 
fall below ascii 256, IE, not unicode.
HTH, Willem

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ok thanks it's perfect. Now I understand better. Indeej not need to
> change code :)
>
> Now only a very important problem stay: 1. changing language or at least
> choose language; 2. in French with iso environment, it doesn't read
> accents. Caused by connector? speakup itself?
>
> Thanks for help,
>
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>
>
> Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 16:07 +0200, Willem van der Walt a écrit :
>> At the same time I see I've a
>> problem with my speakup key: where's it? I use Insert (in the block
>> Insert,
>> pgup pgdn supp Home End), is it here? If it is not, where is it on keypad?
>> On the numeric keypad, left-bottom key on the numpad.  Also the key
>> between alt and control on the left side of the keyboard is a speakup key.
>> HTH, Willem
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I didn't find I needed to alter the source code to get it to compile on
>>>> my system (a 32-bit system, fairly standard archlinux setup IE. I've not
>>>> adjusted the default base packages).
>>> Mine is multilib, that's why I had to.
>>>
>>>> As for the pitch thing, isn't that what speakup conf is for?
>>> Yes normally. But doesn't seem to work for me. At the same time I see I've a problem with my speakup key: where's it? I use Insert (in the block Insert, pgup pgdn supp Home End), is it here? If it is not, where is it on keypad? If it is, in my terminal, I can't combine 2 keys: when I do it, Insert is ont recogniued (either it generates a [[2~ sign, either, if I do ins+t, I get a t written on screen). So ins+3 of keypad acts as 3 key alone. How can I do?
>>>
>>>> As for the language thing, its not cropped up for me as I only use UK
>>>> English but its something which I think should be sorted if not possible.
>>>>
>>>> I am sorry but I am not a C programmer so modifying the source code is
>>>> difficult for me, but if anyone has patches or made a new version
>>>> addressing some of the issues mentioned I will look at adding them to an
>>>> AUR package.
>>> ok ... let's hope
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>> Michael whapples
>>>> On -10/01/37 20:59, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm very interested in your idea. Here's where I downloaded the source:
>>>>> http://www.speakupmodified.org/ttsynth (thanks to William Hubbs who gave
>>>>> me this url).
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you tell me how you use the code? I had to change it: changing the
>>>>> Makefile to adjust to my multilib system, but even C code to allow to
>>>>> choose rate and pitch with 2 numbers as arguments running the connector
>>>>> instead of changing source code itself. But now I still have one
>>>>> problem: how can I set the synthetiser language via the connector? So
>>>>> far it chooses the language according criterias I don't know, English is
>>>>> installed, French if installed alone, another if French is installed
>>>>> with another language. I use voxin exactly. Are you interested in
>>>>> helping me solving this? I don't know to develop at all, I changed the
>>>>> code with a friend. But I can test.
>>>>>
>>>>> Waiting for your answer,
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 19:42 +0100, Michael Whapples a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> I am considering making the speakup connector for ibmtts available as an
>>>>>> AUR package for archlinux. Normally the AUR PKGBUILD scripts refer to a
>>>>>> web location of the source code, however the ttsynth website
>>>>>> (http://ttsynth.com) is no longer available. Is there any other web
>>>>>> location for the source of the speakup connector? If not, I do have a
>>>>>> local copy here, could it be added to the speakup ftp server?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael Whapples
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>>>
>>>
>>>
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