Re: [orca-list] Swedish voices

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mattias:

Orca uses gnome-speech for its speech output.  Ubuntu ships with the
gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, making things rather simple for people
to use eSpeak with Orca.

I'm not sure if Fedora ships with the gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, so
you might have a little work to do.  The first thing would be to get
eSpeak working on Fedora, and then you probably need to build the
gnome-speech driver for eSpeak:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-speech/trunk gnome-speech
cd gnome-speech
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

If you run the 'test-speech' application, it should then show eSpeak as
an option.  Once you get this far, you should be able to use eSpeak with
Orca. 

Will

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 17:13 +0200, mattias jonsson wrote:
> I running fedora 7
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> FrÃn: Peter Korn Sun COM [mailto:Peter Korn Sun COM] 
> Skickat: den 21 juli 2007 08:33
> Till: mattias jonsson
> Kopia: orca-list gnome org
> Ãmne: Re: [orca-list] Swedish voices
>
>
> Hi Mattias
>
> > Where can i find swedish voices for orca
>
> eSpeak, one of the open source text-to-speech engines that works with 
> Orca, supports Swedish (they describe the quality as: "This has now had 
> some work done on the pronunciation rules, so it should be useable." - 
> see http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html).  Depending upon what 
> system you are running on, eSpeak with Swedish support may already be 
> present (try the latest builds of Ubuntu for something that has recent 
> eSpeak on it).  Orca itself has been localized into Swedish, and ought 
> to work with eSpeak (and as with eSpeak, the latest Ubuntu keeps pretty 
> up to date with Orca builds).  I haven't tried that combination myself, 
> and know perhaps 2 words of Swedish, so I wouldn't be a good person to 
> evaluate it in any case.
>
> If you need to build Orca, or gnome-speech (the text-to-speech framework 
> that connects Orca to eSpeak among other TTS engines), please see 
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall for information on this.  To 
> get and build eSpeak, start with http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> Good luck, and please let us know how things work out.  Also, I believe 
> there may be some Swedish Orca users on this list.  If I'm correct, 
> perhaps they might share their experiences.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
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