changing speakup speed in console revisited

[Littlefield, Tyler]

 >espeakup.h:27:30: warning: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory
ap-tget install libespeak-dev
HTH,
On 8/19/2012 5:00 PM, Jason Miller wrote:
> Hello, sorry for the delay. in responding, but I've had my main 
> computer go to crap, and the backup I've been using is severely buggy. 
> I figured how to get the speakup voices to read faster, to a point, 
> using something like:
> fast_test 2 40 40
> at the end of the english voice files in
> /usr/share/speakup-data/voices
>
> Now I have a couple of other problems. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 for the 
> time being, until I make a switch on a good computer once I get one, 
> to Ubuntu 12.04. I use speakup as my voices for Orca and I can't get 
> them all to speed up. I can get the en-us to speed up, and the 
> scottish, and most of the default british ones as well. But I can't 
> get the one that is called Default en, or just the plain default to 
> speed up in a graphical desktop. I've swapped out the "default" and 
> replaced it with en-us and renamed it default but I don't think that's 
> what I'm looking for.
>
> Now the other issue, I was asked why I'm not using espeakup in the 
> console. The reason is this. When I do a
> sudo apt-get install alsa-utils speakup-tools espeakup
> I get alsa-utils and speakup-tools are already the newest versions. 
> When it gets to espeakup, I get this:
>
> Setting up espeakup (1:0.71-1) ...
> update-rc.d: warning: espeakup start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do 
> not match LSB Default-Start values (S)
> update-rc.d: warning: espeakup stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not 
> match LSB Default-Stop values (none)
> * Starting Speakup/espeak connector espeakup  Unable to open the 
> softsynth device: Device or resource busy
> [fail]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing espeakup (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
> status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> espeakup
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Now, for building it. I don't know if what I found is anywhere near a 
> current version. The versions I tried building are these ones -
> espeakup_0.71.original, and
> williamh-espeakup-0.71-115-gd95ee07
>
> when I try both, I get this after typing make, or sudo make
>
> cc -MMD -Wall -c -o espeakup.o espeakup.c
> In file included from espeakup.c:27:
> espeakup.h:27:30: warning: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory
> espeakup.c:38: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ 
> before ‘audio_mode’
> espeakup.c: In function ‘main’:
> espeakup.c:161: warning: implicit declaration of function 
> ‘espeak_Terminate’
> make: *** [espeakup.o] Error 1
>
> I've located sepak_lib.h.gzon my computer, unpacked it, but have no 
> idea where to specifically stuff it to retry.. espeak/ is a pretty 
> vague directory, and there a re a few that begin with that, or have 
> that in it's path...
>
> Any help would be more than greatly appreciated, as the console speed 
> I can achieve by hitting speakup+6 using speech-dispatcher is way to 
> slow. Am I missing somethign obvious, or what? Thanks for any help.
>
> Jason
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