Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-02 Thread Willie Walker
I definitely agree that a shared speech service is very important, whether it is gnome-speech or SpeechDispatcher, or whatever else (e.g., MRCPv2). Will On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 20:24 +0100, Lukas Loehrer wrote: > Willie Walker writes ("Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?"): > > We r

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Janina Sajka
Hi, All: Willie Walker writes: > Hi Henrik: > > > Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there > > licensing reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk > > support or technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags > > then I can ask our packagers to make a DEC

Re: more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can have as many software synthesizers as you want and switch to them from Orca as long as there is a gnome-speech driver for each synthesizer. Synthesizers that use speech-dispatcher have a gnome-speech driver in Ubuntu Edgy. The only problem is

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Haneman
Lukas Loehrer wrote: > Willie Walker writes ("Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?"): > >> We recently looked at making a gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, but the >> main problem is that the eSpeak libraries have no facilities for sending >> samples to the audio device. Instead, i

Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

2006-12-02 Thread Lukas Loehrer
Willie Walker writes ("Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?"): > We recently looked at making a gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, but the > main problem is that the eSpeak libraries have no facilities for sending > samples to the audio device. Instead, it relies upon the application

laptop specification

2006-12-02 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
Should my Compaq Presario Laptop be able to run Edgy as Live from the Desktop CD when the process is a intel Celeron 1.30 ghz? Tried to run Orca during bootup, I have tried F5, 3 and enter twice when the drive has paused, before it has paused and even after it has paused but no speech and even r

Re: more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Absolutely. I have Dectalk, Festival, FreeTTS, etc all built and compiled in gnome speech and it is easy as cake to switch to another synth in orca. Smile. MICHAEL WEAVER wrote: > can you have more than one software synthesiser on a Linux system, for > example Dectalk and Espeak an

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Henrik: > Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing > reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or > technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask > our packagers to make a DECtalk-enabled version available. The issu

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Haneman
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Bill Haneman wrote: > >> Michael: >> >> You can use orca with DECtalk. To do so, you will need to rebuild >> gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and >> installed. I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the >> DECtalk drivers

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Bill Haneman wrote: > Michael: > > You can use orca with DECtalk. To do so, you will need to rebuild > gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and > installed. I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the > DECtalk drivers if DECtalk is detected on your system

more than one synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
can you have more than one software synthesiser on a Linux system, for example Dectalk and Espeak and be able to switch to the one you want in Orca? ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailm

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Bill Haneman
Michael: You can use orca with DECtalk. To do so, you will need to rebuild gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and installed. I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the DECtalk drivers if DECtalk is detected on your system when you build. I will leave i

Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like eSpeak. It rocks! sudo apt-get install espeak speech-dispatcher edit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and uncomment the espeak-generic module and make it the default. You may also wish to comment out the festival module. Edit the /etc/sp

ubuntu and software synthesiser

2006-12-02 Thread MICHAEL WEAVER
I am hoping to upgrade Ubuntu on my laptop next week from Dapper to Edgy. I can use the default software synthesiser but I am not all that keen on it especially as one of the Linux groups I attend is in a fairly noisy pub. Could anyone suggest a suitable software synthesiser and how to install it