[Emacspeak] Re: Introduction & Voice Configuration Questions

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had the same problem, I installed emacspeak, I have voxin
working using orca, but here is what I get when I try to use ./outloud
from the servers directory under emacspeak:

Using SoX
19No language foundtts
    while executing
    "load $tclTTS/atcleci.so"
        (file "./outloud" line 459)


On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 03:16:26 -0500,
Ishe Chinyoka via Emacspeak wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> HI David,
> 
> Unfortunately, for me on Archlinux, Voxin fails to work in
> Emacspeak. I
> even tried the option of downloading the Emacspeak Installer from
> Oralux. Restarting my system did not have the Voxin
> voices. Putting that
> line of "
> (setq "dtk_Program" "outloud")"
> instead results in Emacspeak going silent. So I had to just
> resign to
> the fact of using Espeak voices.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Ishe
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 01:32  "D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via Emacspeak"
> <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> wrote:
> > Oralux.org sells the old IBM Text to Speech modules (EUR 4.19)
> > which work in emacspeak, and
> > https://oralux.org/ has an installer which works in many Linux
> > distros. Additionally, Oralux now
> > sells the Vocalizer Embedded voices in an amazing number of
> > languages and dialects (400)
> > which work in text console and in Orca with satisfying
> > results. Vocalizer Embedded is selling
> > for EUR 22.10 to 29.81 depending on the quality of the voice
> > from "Compact" to "High".
> > 
> > I use Zoe ML- High because it was easiest for me to hear.
> > 
> > I have it working in console with Debian and Slint / Slackware.
> > 
> > It would be wonderful if it were free to use and modify, but it
> > is what it is and it's very good.
> > 
> > I also wish a speech engine for it would be developed because I
> > find the voices very easy to
> > understand even at fast rates.
> > 
> > I have no connection with oralux.org other than being a happy
> > customer of both the IBM TTS
> > voice which I use in emacspeak and the Embedded voices.
> > 
> > I think it was easiest for me to use the Embedded voices in
> > Orca in GUI and in the CLI but
> > espeak-ng in emacspeak, because I could not figure out how to
> > run regular IBM TTS in
> > emacspeak while running Voxin Embedded in console.  I have a
> > desktop keyboard and I just
> > press num pad 0 and Enter and the console voice stops, type
> > "emacs" and I have emacspeak
> > working. Voxin provides a script called "voxin-say" to hear and
> > test it's modules. voxin-say
> > "text to say" | aplay being the command. voxin-say --L lists
> > the installed voices which must be
> > inserted into and selected in configuration files voxin.ini.
> > 
> > Best wishes,
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:10 AM Tim Makarios via Emacspeak
> > <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >  Hi,
> > 
> >  I don't think I'd heard of Larynx before. Have you considered
> > RHVoice as a possibility, if
> >  you're going to be writing a speech server for Emacspeak?
> >  https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice
> >  I think it lets you adjust pitch and rate, which Emacspeak can
> > make use of if you put the
> >  right pipes in the right places (or so I understand).
> > 
> >  The licensing of the voices is a little confusing, which is
> > presumably why it ended up in
> >  Debian non-free, but I *think* some of the voices (like Alan,
> > as far as I can see) are
> >  covered only by the (L)GPL, which is applied to the software
> > as  a whole.
> > 
> >  As for how to do it, I'm certainly no expert in that, but
> > here's some relevant
> >  documentation:
> >  http://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/TTS-Servers.html
> > 
> >  All the best,
> > 
> >  Tim
> >  <><
> > 
> >  On 21 January 2022 8:24:50 am NZDT, Hendur Saga via Emacspeak
> >  <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  Hello Emacspeakers!
> > 
> >  This is my first post here, so I thought I might as well
> > introduce myself first. I've been
> >  a programmer for over a decade, a moderate Emacs user for a
> > few  years, declared
> >  "bankruptcy" a few times, and am still using it to this day. I
> > have no visual
> >  difficulties at present, but I've found auditory UIs (and UX
> > design in general) rather
> >  fascinating.
> > 
> >  Unfortunately, the default espeak voice I'm stuck with so far
> > gets very irritating, very
> >  quickly. I almost want to punch a wall, sometimes. I'm sure
> > some of you can
> >  sympathize. I've looked through the *-voices.el and, for a
> > Linux user, there doesn't
> >  really seem like much choice, sadly. If I were to try and add
> > support for, say,
> >  Rhasspy's Larynx project (available at
> > https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx), how
> >  difficult would such a task be, and what path or resources
> > could I look at to help
> >  achieve that?
> > 
> >  In the meantime, how do I at least switch espeak voices,
> > within  the same language?
> >  I have additional MBROLA voices from Debian I can use from the
> > command-line.
> > 
> >  Thanks,
> > 
> >  Hendursaga
> > 
> >  --  Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse
> > my  brevity.
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