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

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

I installed the voices into /opt/swift--this is the default provided by 
the installation script, install.sh.  If what you are asking is where 
did I unpack the tarball, I did that in my home directory.

Hope this helps,

dave

On 09/28/2008 09:18 PM, Scott Berry wrote:
> 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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