Re: [orca-list] Problem with Cepstral Voices

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
When using the stand alone swift application you have to install alsa-oss:
sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
and use swift like this:
aoss swift "hello"
With speech-dispatcher you don't have to worry about it because spd uses its own sound output for every voice. You do need to uncomment the swift-generic module though in either /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf or in ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf
HTH
Storm

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On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 05:36 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been trying to get several of my Cepstral Swift voices working
> with Orca for quite some time, but from Ubuntu 10 on none of the
> voices appear to work on Ubuntu Linux. I've tried Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10,
> and recently 11.04 beta 2 all with the same results. Whenever I try to
> test a voice like Callie using swift I get the following error:
> "OSS_Audio: Unable to open /dev/dsp"
> Any ideas what to try or do to get the Cepstral voices working again.
> They use to work fine on Ubuntu 8 and 9, but after updating to Ubuntu
> 10 they constantly give me that error. I'd like to get these voices
> working with Orca and Speech-Dispatcher again as they sound a lot
> better than ESpeak.
>
> FYI, I noticed the Fonix Dectalk software gives me the exact same
> error too. The only voices that appear to be working is ESpeak and my
> copy of Eloquence I got from Orilux.
>
> Thanks.
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