Re: [orca-list] TTS choices? Don't worry, not Voxin

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Didier:

I'm on X86_64 and building from the Arch AUR repository updated as about a week ago. 

Repository      : aur
Name            : espeak-ng
Version         : 1.49.2-1
Description     : Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
URL             : https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
AUR Page        : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/espeak-ng
Licenses        : GPL3
Keywords        : None
Groups          : None
Provides        : espeak
Depends on      : pcaudiolib
Make Deps       : None
Check Deps      : None
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : espeak
Replaces        : None
Maintainer      : polyzen
Popularity      : 1.32
Votes           : 5
Out of Date     : No
Submitted       : Thu 08 Mar 2018 05:01:23 PM EST
Last Modified   : Thu 08 Mar 2018 05:01:23 PM EST
 
Didier Spaier writes:
> Hello Janina,
>
> it would help to know your context: which distribution and versions.
>
> Here I have no issue building from this source archive:
> https://github.com/rhdunn/espeak/archive/1.49.2.tar.gz
>
> For what its worth my build stuff is there:
> http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/next/source/espeak-ng/
>
> But as I see this in your post:
> make: *** [<builtin>: espeakup] Error 1
> I suspect that this issue occurs when building espeakup against
> espeak-ng, rather than when building espeak-ng itself.
>
> For what its worth, to get espeakup to work against espeak-ng I have
> written this in the SLKBUILD in the doinst.sh() function, which is
> executed from / just after installation:
>
> mkdir -p usr/include/espeak
> (cd usr/include/espeak
> rm -f speak_lib.h
> ln -s ../espeak-ng/speak_lib.h .
> )
> (cd usr/lib64
> rm -f libespeak.so.1
> ln -s libespeak-ng.so.1.1.49 libespeak.so.1
> )
>
> Slint is 64-bit only, if your distribution is multilib, probably you
> need to replace usr/lib64 by usr/lib
>
> But let's check first that you not only built but also installed
> espeak-ng before building aspeak, as else we can understand that the
> linker be unhappy.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Didier
>
>
> Le 02/07/2018 à 18:38, Janina Sajka via orca-list a écrit :
> > I'm currently unable to build espeak-ng. I'm getting the following
> > output:
> >
> >
> > /usr/sbin/ld: cannot find -lespeak
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [<builtin>: espeakup] Error 1
> > ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
> >     Aborting...
> >
> >
> > Looks to me like a typo somewhere in the source. Am I wrong?
> >
> > This matters a lot as switching from espeak to espeak-ng can be tricky
> > business. Best to have alternative control of the machine in question,
> > imo, e.g. via ssh.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Orca screen reader developers writes:
> > > I don't recall seeing a fork of espeak, but you can use espeak-ng now, which
> > > has mostly better pronunciations now, and is the continuation of original
> > > espeak, as the lead developer of the original espeak seems to have either
> > > dialed an address outside of the known stargate system or boarded a ship to
> > > another galaxy. I recall indicating that the klatt4 I think voice may be
> > > more to your liking, or you can use the Michel voice variant, but you need
> > > to cat the files or try to get Orca to see the voice variants.
> > >
> > >
> > > There is another voice called Gama TTS, which is forked from GNUSpeech, but
> > > it sounds kinda weird. It already has a speech-dispatcher module, but it
> > > will require a rather different build method in order to use it, as it uses
> > > cmake, and tells me to build from another directory. I'm not sure about
> > > Swift, as it's rather old now as I recall, it's only available for x86 and
> > > x86_64, which I no longer have, and the cost is quite high for a single
> > > voice, although I thought there was supposed to be a 5 minute trial or
> > > something. As far as I know, it should still have a download link, but I'm
> > > not sure where to find it now. Of course Festival and Flite are still
> > > available, and either of those can talk with many more voices than just that
> > > drugged robot voice that it uses by default. Unfortunately however, I can't
> > > figure how to make spd work with any of these other Flite voices, and
> > > Festival takes some extra magic to get running. Hopefully some of this
> > > helps.
> > >
> > > Imetumwa kutoka sauti kubwa
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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-- 

Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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