Re: Orca another espeak problem

[Aruni Sharma <libranarsh gmail com>]

Thanks will, it did work. However, I think ubuntu uses speak  instead of 
espeak. I can't use different voices with orca. but it is a common 
problem so far I guess.
Regards,
Aruni.
Willie Walker wrote:
> Aha.  Looks like the permissions are wrong on the library and a 
> regular user cannot read it.  Try this command:
>
> sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.19
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Will
>
> Aruni Sharma wrote:
> > hi will, the output is as follows:
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 2007-02-02 12:55 /usr/lib/libespeak.so 
> > -> libespeak.so.1.1.19
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 2007-02-02 12:56 
> > /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1 -> libespeak.so.1.1.19
> > -r-xr-x--- 1 root root 187537 2007-02-02 12:53 
> > /usr/lib/libespeak.so.1.1.19
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aruni.
> > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Just to help me, what's the output of the following command when you 
> > > type it in a shell:
> > >
> > > ls -l /usr/lib/libespeak*
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > Aruni Sharma wrote:
> > > > Hi will, I get absolutely no error messages. I don't get any sort 
> > > > of messages which seems to me to be doing everything fine.
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Aruni.
> > > > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > > > Hi Aruni:
> > > > >
> > > > > Just to be sure, what does ls -l /usr/lib/libespeak* give you?
> > > > >
> > > > > Will
> > > > >
> > > > > Aruni Sharma wrote:
> > > > > > Hello listers, I have tried upgrading to the latest release 1.19 
> > > > > > of ESpeak. although espeak is working I suspect my synth is not 
> > > > > > the latest one. I have followed instructions about copying and 
> > > > > > configuring libespeak.so libraries. I simply copy the latest 
> > > > > > speak file to /usr/bin and the espeak-data folder to /usr/share. 
> > > > > > I have copied the Espeak file also. However, If I try to run 
> > > > > > espeak from the terminal window, I get the following error:
> > > > > > espeak: error while loading shared libraries: libespeak.so.1: 
> > > > > > cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory.
> > > > > > Please note that the shared libraries i.e libespeak.so.1.1.19, 
> > > > > > libespeak.so and libespeak.so.1 files aare there in /usr/lib and 
> > > > > > the speak_lib.h file is in /usr/include.
> > > > > > the speak executible is working fine and so is the espeak synth. 
> > > > > > I choose gnome speech services as the driver andspeech-dispatcher 
> > > > > > gnomespeech driver as my synth. However, I don't get Espeak as an 
> > > > > > option. Thanks and regards,
> > > > > > Aruni.
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