Re: [orca-list] suggestions for upgrading Espeak

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
I think on the package issue, one should build a package with 
dpkg-buildpackage to solve your second problem.
You should copy espeak and speak some where in your execution path, I use 
/usr/local/bin.
Yes, you must copy the espeak-data directory to /usr/share.  The 
advantages would be that you will now have any changes made to the speech 
rules or phonemes since the previous version you had.  UIn fact it is 
quite possible that by not copying espeak-data, you will start getting 
funny speech because the new espeak will not be able to correctly use the 
old espeak-data.
Yes, you should also copy the library files into /usr/local/lib or another 
library path like /usr/lib.
With orca, the library files and /usr/share/espeak-data is what is 
actually used.
espeak-1.28 is the latest official release, so packages for that should  
likely be around soon.
I would therefore not worry too mutch about the software update clobbering 
the compiled version.
HTH, Willem


On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Guy schlosser wrote:

> Hey all, I have a question regarding Espeak for anyone who can answer.
> I got the 1.28 source yesterday, and compiled it successfully against
> portaudio19.  I'm running Ubuntu 7.04, and am more or less just looking
> for a couple suggestions.  Should I replace my existing binary
> (/usr/bin/espeak) with the newly compiled one?  Does the same hold true
> for the libespeak files?  Lastly, should I copy the espeak data in
> yesturday's archive over to /usr/share?  If I do all this, how do I go
> about telling dpkg, apt, etc. about the changes, so that any updates
> don't clobber my new version?  Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> and thanks much in advance.
>
>
> Guy
>
>
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