Re: [orca-list] updating espeak

[Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

they keep adding new languages like irish gaelic farsi and urdu. and 
they keep making the english voices better and better and more clear 
with better and better pronunciations.

On 5/15/2013 1:18 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> 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.
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> 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 It is using a slightly out of date espeak and I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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