Re: [orca-list] TTS choices? Don't worry, not Voxin

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

I'm currently unable to build espeak-ng. I'm getting the following
output:


/usr/sbin/ld: cannot find -lespeak
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [<builtin>: espeakup] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...


Looks to me like a typo somewhere in the source. Am I wrong?

This matters a lot as switching from espeak to espeak-ng can be tricky
business. Best to have alternative control of the machine in question,
imo, e.g. via ssh.

Janina

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> I don't recall seeing a fork of espeak, but you can use espeak-ng now, which
> has mostly better pronunciations now, and is the continuation of original
> espeak, as the lead developer of the original espeak seems to have either
> dialed an address outside of the known stargate system or boarded a ship to
> another galaxy. I recall indicating that the klatt4 I think voice may be
> more to your liking, or you can use the Michel voice variant, but you need
> to cat the files or try to get Orca to see the voice variants.
>
>
> There is another voice called Gama TTS, which is forked from GNUSpeech, but
> it sounds kinda weird. It already has a speech-dispatcher module, but it
> will require a rather different build method in order to use it, as it uses
> cmake, and tells me to build from another directory. I'm not sure about
> Swift, as it's rather old now as I recall, it's only available for x86 and
> x86_64, which I no longer have, and the cost is quite high for a single
> voice, although I thought there was supposed to be a 5 minute trial or
> something. As far as I know, it should still have a download link, but I'm
> not sure where to find it now. Of course Festival and Flite are still
> available, and either of those can talk with many more voices than just that
> drugged robot voice that it uses by default. Unfortunately however, I can't
> figure how to make spd work with any of these other Flite voices, and
> Festival takes some extra magic to get running. Hopefully some of this
> helps.
>
> Imetumwa kutoka sauti kubwa
>
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa