changing espeak's voice for speakup

[Rob Whyte]

hi,
I believe it is a known bug in Vinux espeak-data
As earlier i suggested going into the US espeak directory adn removing 
all files other than default and US
that will fix the problem.


On 04/06/11 22:58, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Jeremy,
> Unfortunately I have no idea why it would do that. Have you ever
> actually heard the US voice? I mean, do you know for sure what you're
> hearing isn't the US one?  I don't mean any offense by that, it's just
> that I've heard people say the US voice sounds horible and has a weird
> accent, even though I've never noticed that myself. I personally use it
> all the time. I do know that the default voice has an accent. Is it
> possible you're not getting the US voice?
>
> I suggest you try this.
>
> 1. Stop the espeakup service, how ever you do that in debian.
>
> 2. Run espeakup manually like this:
>
> espeakup --default-voice=en-us
>
> See if that gives you the US voice or the one you don't want. If it
> does, then the problem is with the startup scripts, not with anything
> involving espeak or espeakup.