Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I'm no Orca developer, but I wonder if Orca should be in the business of 
writing scripts to update eSpeak. Maybe this should be a packaging 
implementation in the distribution, e.g. Vinux has an eSpeak package in 
it's repositories. Also, what's changing in eSpeak so much these days 
that it needs to be updated more frequently than it's being updated in 
the distributions?

The few times I've recompiled eSpeak myself, I've gone to 
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/download.html and downloaded the correct 
file and then ran:

$ make all
$ sudo make install

I wonder how this is different than the steps you outline below.







On 05/15/2013 09:13 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> Hi
>
> In a future version of orca could you add a variants combo box so we
> could pick voice variants like klatt and whisper and others? also could
> you add a dialog which will update espeak to the latest version? Here is
> an easy way to do it. pasted below there may be some spelling errors here.
>
> On 2 May 2013 19:15, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com> wrote:
> can someone please give me steps for updating espeak in sonar linux?
> www.sonar-project.org . It is using a slightly out of date espeak and I
> would like to update it. sonar is based on ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04.
>
> I have a modified version of espeak that supports easy building on
> GNU/Linux and other POSIX-based platforms at
> https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak.
>
> You can run:
>
>      $ ./autogen.sh
>      $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
>      $ make
>      $ sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86-linux-gnu install
>
> And it will build and install espeak and the voices for you. You will
> need to install wxWidgets 2.8 before building as this is needed to
> compile the voice phonemes.
>
> HTH,
> - Reece
>
> On 2 May 2013 19:35, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com> wrote:
> can I install wxwidgets2.8 with apt-get ?
>
> Yes (see
> http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Installing_and_configuring_under_Ubuntu):
>
>      sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dbg
>
> On 5/2/2013 2:27 PM, Reece Dunn wrote:
> On 2 May 2013 19:15, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com
> <mailto:joshknnd1982 gmail com>> wrote:
>
>      can someone please give me steps for updating espeak in sonar linux?
>      www.sonar-project.org <http://www.sonar-project.org> . It is using a
>
>      slightly out of date espeak and I
>      would like to update it. sonar is based on ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04.
>
>
> I have a modified version of espeak that supports easy building on
> GNU/Linux and other POSIX-based platforms at
> https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak.
>
> You can run:
>
>       $ ./autogen.sh
>       $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
>       $ make
>       $ sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86-linux-gnu install
>
> And it will build and install espeak and the voices for you. You will
> need to install wxWidgets 2.8 before building as this is needed to
> compile the voice phonemes.
>
> HTH,
> - Reece
>
> On 9 May 2013 20:28, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com> wrote:
> how do I download this modified espeak? there are a bunch of links on
> the website. or is there a command that will make Linux go and get the
> whole thing and put it all in my home folder ready for me to run the
> other commands? at some point I would like to make zenity dialogs that
> will make the process even easier.
>
> You can run:
>
>      $ cd ~
>      $ git clone git github com:rhdunn/espeak.git
>      $ cd espeak
>
> then later on, to update it, run:
>
>      $ cd ~/espeak
>      $ git pull
>
> Alternatively, there is a zip button that will download the zip file for
> the latest code (direct link:
> https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/archive/master.zip).
>
> HTH,
> - Reece
> On 5/2/2013 2:27 PM, Reece Dunn wrote:
> On 2 May 2013 19:15, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com
> <mailto:joshknnd1982 gmail com>> wrote:
>
>      can someone please give me steps for updating espeak in sonar linux?
>      www.sonar-project.org <http://www.sonar-project.org> . It is using a
>
>      slightly out of date espeak and I
>      would like to update it. sonar is based on ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04.
>
>
> I have a modified version of espeak that supports easy building on
> GNU/Linux and other POSIX-based platforms at
> https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak.
>
> You can run:
>
>       $ ./autogen.sh
>       $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
>       $ make
>       $ sudo make LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86-linux-gnu install
>
> And it will build and install espeak and the voices for you. You will
> need to install wxWidgets 2.8 before building as this is needed to
> compile the voice phonemes.
>
> HTH,
> - Reece
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