changing espeak's voice for speakup

[jeremy]

Hello again. I managed to figure out that the voice is set correctly, 
however it seems that the English-us voice is different here on debian 
from others I've been used to. This one most definitely has an odd 
accent but it's not a bad voice. I'm now going through all the different 
voices to see if I can find the one I'm used to but the killing espeakup 
and running it with the different voices worked like a charm.
I'm not sure if you or anyone else has lots of experience with the 
talking debian installer, but any ideas on what voice that uses by 
default would be great in figuring out what I am searching for. I'm not 
sure of the process it takes wen you set your language and localization 
but this is wen espeak went all crazy. The voice it's using wen you 
first boot is the one I'm hoping to set it back to. Your help so far has 
been greatly appreciated and thank you.
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.