changing espeak's voice for speakup

[jeremy]

Hello and thanks. To be totally honest, it very well may be the correct 
voice. If this is so however, it's quite a bit different from that on 
other systems, espeak in the different vinux distributions using ubuntu 
or on my other box which is running arch. I'll certainly try running it 
with the different voices to see what happens. Even if I am unable to 
figure out what's causing the problem it's not bad enough to not use, 
it's just sort of an odd issue I've never had on other systems. And, no 
offense taken at all, I'm glad to have these issues every now and again, 
it's what keeps me learning more and more. It's damned sure the best way 
to figure out something, especially sense it's not a huge problem. Once 
again, thanks for the help and I'll definitely ask more questions if I 
can't get it. lol
Take care.
On 6/4/2011 9:58 PM, 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.