getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Hi Al.

I had to do something similar:  my /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 pointed
to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.18, but /usr/lib/libespeak.so pointed
to /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.15.  Once I changed that, I was able to
build gnome-speech (prior to that, make exits with an error).

While there are lots of voices listed both in test-speech and in Orca, I
seem to be limited to just one. I see them all
in /usr/share/espeak-data/voices.  How do I use them?

Take care.
Joanie

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:08 -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: 
> Hi Will,
> 
> Thanks a lot for this.  i've managed to get it up and running, and I must 
> say, the performance of the synthesizer is great!
> 
> An interesting note.  In order to get my setup working, I had to deviate 
> slightly from the process you described.  I found that before the driver 
> would build, I needed to create two symbolic links from 
> /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.18: /usr/lib/libespeak.so, and 
> /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.   I'm not sure how to account for that discrepancy; 
> but for now, I'm just happy that it's working.
> 
> --Al
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willie Walker" <William.Walker at Sun.COM>
> To: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk>; 
> <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>; "Orca List" <orca-list at gnome.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was, eSpeak 
> v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)
> 
> 
> > Hi Al:
> >
> > I put Gilles's gnome-speech driver in the gnome-speech SVN trunk, and
> > I'll do a gnome-speech 0.4.8 release with it for GNOME 2.17.90 (GNOME
> > 2.18.0 Beta 1) a week from tomorrow.  If people can give this a try
> > before Friday and let me know of successes or issues, it would be great.
> >
> > Here's what I did to get it to work - it took about 15 minutes:
> >
> > DOWNLOAD/INSTALL ESPEAK:
> >
> > Download espeak-1.18-linux.zip from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ and
> > unzip it.
> >
> > Type these commands to get the espeak stuff in well-known locations:
> >
> > cd espeak-1.18-linux
> > sudo cp -rp espeak-data /usr/share/
> > sudo cp shared_library/libespeak.so.1.1.18 /usr/lib/
> > sudo cp shared_library/speak_lib.h /usr/include/
> > sudo ldconfig
> >
> > BUILD/INSTALL THE GNOME-SPEECH DRIVER FOR ESPEAK:
> >
> > In the top-level gnome-speech source directory, type these commands to
> > build/install gnome-speech with espeak (assuming you've pulled the
> > gnome-speech from svn at revision 267 or greater, though 267 currently
> > is the highest revision right now):
> >
> > ./autogen --prefix=/usr
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> > I also ran test-speech to make sure it worked - it did.  Gilles made
> > this really easy for me to integrate into gnome-speech.  Thanks very
> > much Gilles, and thanks very much Jonathan for creating eSpeak and for
> > being receptive of Gilles's mods.
> >
> > Note that the gnome-speech driver depends upon the libespeech library,
> > which has a dependency on libportaudio0.  I already had libportaudio0
> > installed on my Ubuntu box, so I didn't run into any issues.
> >
> > Hope this helps, and thanks again everyone.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 17:09 -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> First of all, many,  many thanks to both Gilles Casse and Jonathan
> >> Duddington for making this happen!
> >>
> >> Is there a parameter that needs to be passed to the autogen script to 
> >> cause
> >> the Espeak driver to be built, or should the presence of Espeak be
> >> autodetected by gnome-speech?
> >>
> >> I think I have Espeak 1.8 installed correctly, as I'm able to get it to
> >> speak system wide when I issue the espeak command; However, the 
> >> gnome-speech
> >> driver is not being built.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any tips,
> >>
> >> --Al
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk>
> >> To: <ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:50 AM
> >> Subject: eSpeak v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech
> >>
> >>
> >> > Version 1.18 of the eSpeak synthesizer is now available at:
> >> >  http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
> >> >
> >> > This version includes changes made by Gilles Casse which allow it to be
> >> > used with a GnomeSpeech driver which he has written.  This should give
> >> > better results when using eSpeak with Orca and other Gnome 
> >> > applications.
> >> >
> >> > I'm not sure whether Gilles has announced his GnomeSpeech driver for
> >> > eSpeak yet.  He may be waiting for me announce this 1.18 version first.
> >> >
> >> > Please report any problems, in case there is time to fix them before
> >> > the cut-off date for Ubuntu Feisty.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -- 
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> >> > Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
> >>
> >>
> > 
> 
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