Re: [orca-list] free voices other than espeak

[Jace Kattalakis <khalfang1366 gmail com>]

Two quick questions. I built RHVoice from source before and it works 
fine and is installed, but...

First off. Where's the .conf located for RHVoice given I followed the 
instructions on the github wiki for building under Linux


Secondly. I get this as of a few days ago when I try building the latest 
github version:


jace@jace-System-Product-Name:~/RHvoice$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Mkdir("build/linux")
Checking whether the C compiler works... yes
Checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
Checking for pkg-config... yes
Checking for libpulse-simple... yes
Checking for ao... yes
Checking for portaudio-2.0... no
Checking Speech Dispatcher version ... no
Configuring  /home/jace/RHvoice/src/core/config.h.in into 
/home/jace/RHvoice/src/core/config.h ...
Configuring  /home/jace/RHvoice/src/include/core/config.h.in into 
/home/jace/RHvoice/src/include/core/config.h ...
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'/home/jace/RHvoice/data/voices/evgeniy-eng/voice.info':
  File "/home/jace/RHvoice/SConstruct", line 370:
    build_for_linux(base_env,vars)
  File "/home/jace/RHvoice/SConstruct", line 326:
SConscript(os.path.join(subdir,"SConscript"),exports={"env":base_env},
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 660:
    return method(*args, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 597:
    return _SConscript(self.fs, *files, **subst_kw)
  File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 286:
    exec(compile(scriptdata, scriptname, 'exec'), call_stack[-1].globals)
  File "/home/jace/RHvoice/data/SConscript", line 42:
props=RHVoiceInfoParser.parse(subdir.File(type+".info").abspath)
  File "/home/jace/RHvoice/site_scons/RHVoiceInfoParser.py", line 10:
    with io.open(path,"rt",encoding="utf-8") as f:

On 19/04/2021 12:13, Alexander Epaneshnikov via orca-list wrote:
> 16.04.2021 22:07, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list пишет:
> > Perhaps the better question is:
> >
> > Is there a way to install RH Voice without building from source? and
> > if there isn't, why not?
>
> for ubuntu we have a unofficial PPA[1]. but I haven't tested it myself.
>
> I would really like to see RHVoice appear in the debian repositories, 
> but this requires some fairly non-trivial changes.
> I'm sure this will happen over time, but unfortunately I can't say 
> exactly when.
>
> as I said before - I understand that compiling from source code is not 
> a trivial process and therefore I am ready to help anyone who does not 
> succeed in this process.
> however for this I need clear instructions on what you did and what 
> errors you got.
>
> [1]: 
> https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/blob/master/doc/en/Packaging-status.md#ubuntu