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

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hey Joanie,

I'm seeing the same thing.  I have a number of voices listed in test-speech 
as well as in the Orca person dropdown; However,selecting any of these seems 
to have no affect.

On a somewhat related note, have you  tried compiling Espeak under Ubuntu 
for PPC?  When attempting to do so, I'm getting an error during the make, 
having to do with the inability to find lespeak.  It's as if  the compile 
depends on the presence of libespeak, but I don't see how to compile 
libespeak first.

--Al




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <j-diggs at comcast.net>
To: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz at gmail.com>
Cc: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
<ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: getting the gnome-speech eSpeak driver to build? (was,eSpeak 
v1.18 released, for use with Orca/GnomeSpeech)


> 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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>> >>
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