Re: [orca-list] trying to install Cepstral voices on Ubuntu

[Scott Berry <sberry northlc com>]

Dave,

When you installed the voices did you install them to your home
directory or what directory do you suggest?

Scott
        


On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 20:34 -0600, David E. Price wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what you tried to do, so I'll describe the process I used to 
> install Cepstral Callie on my system.
>
> First, I downloaded the tar file from the web site.  There are two ways to 
> unpack the file from within gnome-terminal:
>
> - tar xzf <filename.tar.gz>
>
> or
>
> - gunzip <filename.tar.gz>
>   tar xf <filename.tar>
>
> In this case, <filename.tar.gz> is the name of the file you downloaded from 
> Cepstral.  For Callie, <filename.tar.gz> = 
> Cepstral_Callie_i386-linux_5.1.0.tar.gz
>
> Note that you can use tab to complete the filename when you use any of the 
> commands above.  Once you complete either of the commands above, there will 
> be a new subdirectory with the same name as the file, minus the "tar.gz" 
> extension.
>
> cd into the new directory. In that directory, type the following:
>
> sudo ./install.sh
>
> this will start the script that will install the voice and the swift engine 
> to run the voice.  The default location for the installation is /opt/swift, 
> but you can change this if you need.  The script will test the installation, 
> but it is always a good idea to test the voice yourself.  To do this, at the 
> command line (assuming you installed into /opt/swift/), type:
>
> /opt/swift/bin/swift -n <name> "Hello world"
>
> where <name> is the name of the voice you are testing.  For instance, I 
> typed:
>
> /opt/swift/bin/swift -n Callie "Hello world"
>
> You should hear the voice say "Hello world".  If not, you've got a problem 
> with the installation.
>
> To register the voice (assuming you've purchased a license), type:
>
> /opt/swift/bin/swift --reg-voice
>
> You will be prompted for information that you gave during the purchase as 
> well as for the voice name and the key that they sent you.
>
> Once you have the voice working correctly, you need to install the 
> gnome-speech-swift package:
>
> sudo apt-get install gnome-speech-swift
>
> Once this has completed, you should be able to use the Orca 
> Preferences/Speech tab to change the speech server to the swift server and 
> configure the voice settings.  If you do not find the swift speech server in 
> Orca Preferences, you need to edit (as root)the file /etc/ld.so.conf and add 
> the line
>
> /opt/swift/lib
>
> at the end of the file.  Once you have saved the file, as root, you need to 
> run ldconfig. This is described on the Orca wiki:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech
>
> Good luck,
>
> dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Berry" <sberry northlc com>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 5:31 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] trying to install Cepstral voices on Ubuntu
>
>
> > hello there,
> >
> > I am trying to install a couple of the Cepstral voices for Orca on a
> > ubuntu system.  I put the files in "/home/scot/(name of voice_" and when
> > I do a cd to get to the cepstral directory it says the directory isn't
> > there.  Do you have to set permissions or am I just putting these in the
> > wrong location?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
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