Hi all, Preface: I hope this is the last and final mega-post on this page.
Note to the developers: this bug has NOTHING to do with portaudio and there is NO NEED to change the Ubuntu audio setup. It was the wrong information in the espeak "ReadMe" file which made me assume that this could have something to do with portaudio. Everything looks as if the Ubuntu espeak packages have just been copied from Debian without checking for pulseaudio compatibility. Here is how I fixed espeak on Ubuntu-9.04-i386 with Gnome. --- How to compile espeak with PulseAudio support on Ubuntu-9.04 --- Using an Ubuntu-9.04-i386 DVD I did a Ubuntu "Desktop" installation including a subsequent package update (May 11th 2009). For a test I started orca by typing "orca" into the Gnome terminal but instead of speech I got only weird noises. I copied the ORIGINAL espeak source code from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html into a sub-folder of my home directory: bash ~/$ mkdir -p downloads/espeak bash ~/$ cp espeak-1.40.02-source.zip ~/downloads/espeak I unzipped the espeak source package and changed the working directory to ".../espeak-1.40.02/src": bash ~/$ cd downloads/espeak bash ~/downloads/espeak$ unzip espeak-1.40.02-source.zip bash ~/downloads/espeak$ cd espeak-1.40.02-source/src/ bash ~/downloads/espeak/espeak-1.40.02-source/src$ I modified the Makefile in the espeak "src" directory by typing: bash ~/downloads/espeak/espeak-1.40.02-source/src$ gedit Makefile With gedit I changed the AUDIO settings in the Makefile as shown below and saved the modified Makefile back to disk. --- espeak-1.40.02-source/src/Makefile line 27-29 --- #AUDIO = portaudio AUDIO = pulseaudio #AUDIO = sada --- end of espeak-1.40.02-source/src/Makefile --- To be able to compile espeak with pulseaudio support I needed the following Ubuntu packages to be installed: build-essential libpulse-dev (including all dependencies) Then I typed "make", "sudo make install" and "sudo ldconfig": bash ~/downloads/espeak/espeak-1.40.02-source/src$ make bash ~/downloads/espeak/espeak-1.40.02-source/src$ sudo make install bash ~/downloads/espeak/espeak-1.40.02-source/src$ sudo ldconfig Now, if I type "orca", I get speech instead of weird noises. There is NO NEED to change anything in the Ubuntu-9.04 audio setup. ------------------------- Emergency Rescue ---------------------------- Because there is no "uninstall" target defined in the espeak Makefile, here is how to remove a self-compiled espeak from a Ubuntu system: sudo rm -f /usr/bin/espeak sudo rm -f /usr/lib/libespeak.a sudo rm -f /usr/lib/libespeak.so sudo rm -f /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 sudo rm -f /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.40 sudo rm -f /usr/include/espeak_lib.h sudo rm -rf /usr/share/espeak-data Then re-install the following Ubuntu packages: espeak espeak-data libespeak1 If I now type "orca" I get exactly the same weird noises as before. :-) - edgar -- espeak sound doesn't play correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354522 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
