[Espeak-general] working with latest espeak

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi mark,
I did not follow this thread, but if you use espeakup, you can specify the 
language when you start espeakup.
espeakup -Ven or whatever language you want.
In some distributions, you may even have an espeakup file in 
/etc/default/espeakup where you can set it.
HTH, Willem


On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Mark Peveto wrote:

> 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
> Registered Linux user number 600552
> Sent from sonar test box using alpine 2.20.14
>
>
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Silas S Brown http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22
>>
>> "Time and unexpected events overtake them all" - Ecclesiastes 9:11
>>
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