Re: [orca-list] TTSynth voice question

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Bob:

It sounds as though you installed the TTS engine, but did not build the 
driver for it. You need to build/install the gnome-speech driver for the 
TTS engine in order for gnome-speech to find it.

You can find more information on building/installing gnome-speech (and 
the drivers for various TTS engines) here:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech

As for why espeak-synthesis-driver is failing, I'll need specific error 
messages to help with that.  :-(

Hope this helps,

Will

Bob Tinney wrote:
> Hi Will,
> I downloaded the Debian ttsynth install package and followed instructions in
> a terminal window and  typed "dpkg ttsynthcore-1.0-i386.deb"
> After the package was opened, I was asked for my license key and name.  When
> the installation was complete, no additional speech drivers showed up in
> Orca preferences.
> With in a terminal, when I typed "espeak-synthesis-driver", I got an error
> something like Espeak not registered core dumped.
> When I typed "test-speech", three drivers were listed.
> espeak, speech dispatcher, and festabal.
> Now, what I don't understand is that if espeak is not registered, why is it
> that that the espeak synthesizer is the only one that is working?
> From a guy who wants to know!
> Bob, tinneyb charter net, K8LR
> Skype name:  bobtinn
> One of the best days of my life is today!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> To: "Bob Tinney" <tinneyb charter net>
> Cc: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:18 PM
> Subject: Re: TTSynth voice question
>
>
> D'Oh!  Someone reminded me you're trying to get the ViaVoice stuff
> working.  Sorry about that.  So...what you wrote is bad news.  It looks
> like the ViaVoice driver either didn't get built or was installed in a
> different location.
>
> Did you specify --prefix=/usr when you ran autogen.sh (or configure)?
>
> Will
>
> Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Bob:
> >
> > OK -- this is good (I think). Try running 'espeak-synthesis-driver' in
> > one terminal window and 'test-speech' in another. See if eSpeak appears
> > in the list of synthesizers in the 'test-speech' terminal window and/or
> > if any errors appear in the 'espeak-synthesis-driver' terminal window.
> > Something bad might be happening, such as maybe a shared library isn't
> > being found by 'espeak-synthesis-driver'.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Bob Tinney wrote:
> > > Hi Will,
> > >
> > > The command line that you gave me gave two results. Espeak.server and
> > > Festaval.server.
> > > Do I need to update Orca as I'm running the one that came with the Ubuntu
> > > desktop live 7.10 cd? Do I need to install the speech dispatcher driver?
> > > One more thing, where do I find these driver update packages or do I
> > > need to
> > > compile them first?
> > > I am very familiar with the inner workings of windows, but I'm new to
> > > Linux
> > > and Ubuntu!
> > > Bob, tinneyb charter net, K8LR
> > > Skype name: bobtinn
> > > One of the best days of my life is today!