Is there text-to-speech and speech recognition for Ubuntu 8.10?

Catalin David c.david at jacobs-university.de
Tue Nov 4 23:12:32 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 11/04/2008 07:37 AM, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>> David Fox wrote:
>>> dfox at newbox:~$ espeak "This is a test"
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
>>> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>> Looks like problems with some file, look at syslog.
>>
>> I like the sound from festival a bit better:
>>
>> carl at cjfh3:~$ echo "I am very good at this" | festival --tts
>> carl at cjfh3:~$
>>
> 
> Both (espeak & festival) work for me in 8.04.1
> 
> 
> 

I believe the problem comes from the fact that these programs can't get 
exclusive access to the sound device. At least that's what happens on my 
computer. When playing music with Amarok or something and trying to run 
any of these I get an error that resembles that.

Catalin




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