Re: Orca free text-to-speech engines for ?

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Hermann napsal(a):
> Hello,
> does anyone use espeak with languages other than English?
> If so, can anybody tell me how I've to configure speech-dispatcher so
> that it uses a different language as default, in my case it's German?

Hello Hermann,

sorry for a late reply, I had to install espeak to be able to experiment
with it...  To be able to use espeak for German with Speech Dispatcher,
do the following.

In /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf:

1. Enable the espeak-generic output module.

2. Set DefaulLanguage to de.

3. Set DefaultModule to espeak-generic or LanguageDefaultModule
   for de to espeak-generic.  The later will use espeak just for German,
   so you can use another module for English for example.

Then in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf:

1. Add the following line under other AddVoice lines:
   AddVoice "de" "MALE1" "german"


2. Add the following line under the GenericLanguage line:
   GenericLanguage "de" "german"

Then restart Speech Dispatcher and try:

spd-say "Wie sind Sie?"

Hope that helps.  Best regards, Tomas.