[Espeak-general] working with latest espeak

[Mark Peveto]

Hi there,
Thanks for the info.  I tried it, but when I log back into my console, I still get uk english.  thanks for the tip, though.  It was darn sure worth a try.


Mark Peveto
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Silas S. Brown wrote:

> Hi Mark, I haven't been following espeak-NG development, but I guess it's possible that
> those files are now obsolete and you have to use command-line arguments to set the voice.
> So have you tried this command: espeak -ven-us "hello from America"
>
> If that works and you want to use it in screen readers etc, I expect the best way would
> be to move your real espeak binary to a safe place and create a script called espeak that
> does something like
>
> #!/bin/bash
> espeak -ven-us $@
>
> then save that as /usr/local/bin/espeak and chmod +x it.  I'm assuming you're on a
> GNU/Linux or Unix machine; I wouldn't know how to do it on Windows but you might get
> somewhere with batch files.  And the above script won't help if the screen reader is
> using the shared library version of eSpeak.
>
> Silas
>
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