[Emacspeak] Re: Introduction & Voice Configuration Questions

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hmmm, I am not sure which set of voices I have, its something like
voxin3.3  or something like that, but it does have voxin-say and it
works perfectly and  the language says
tom-embedded-compact,en,US
and maybe this is why emacspeak does not work?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:09:33 -0500,
D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via Emacspeak wrote:
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> Hello John and Ishe and the friendly emacspeak group.
> 
> I have occasionally had the emacspeak installer not do a successful
> installation but I completely uninstalled the installer from my system, use
> the same installer but there is a switch to use - that is after the command
> to run the script a further comment like --uninstall - but I'm not sure of
> what the switch is, so check with --help after the installer name.
> 
> Before uninstalling check with voxin-say to see what languages you have
> installed and then to make them speak.
> 
> voxin-say -L
> 
> Will give you a list of installed languages.
> 
> The name of the language must appear in the voxin.ini file for this to be
> spoken.
> 
> After you see your language to see what's installed, try having it speak.
> 
> voxin-say "Hello John and Ishe, this is voxin speaking" | aplay
> 
> Where | is the bar which on a USA keyboard is the key above ENTER shifted.
> 
> Remember this only works for the old IBM TTS voxin voices, as the Voxin
> Embedded voices - which are much nicer - do not have a speech engine inside
> emacspeak.  Hopefully someone will volunteer, they are excellent voices.
> 
> I'd be happy to help you off list as at least the initial setting up of
> voxin is probably off topic, but of course if a moderator emails me to
> continue, I will be glad to help.
> 
> I'm only an expert (ha, ha) because I keep doing it right, but I was only
> able to do it because of Gilles Casee's expert assistance.  I think I
> annoyed him so much, he wrote Father Christmas and told him to fill my
> Christmas boxes with coal dust.  Only kidding,  Gilles, you wouldn't do
> this, but I did ask many questions and received much help from you even
> though I must have asked stupid questions, you gave me all the information
> and help I needed which I am passing along freely to others!
> 
> If you get voxin-say "words to speak" | aplay to speak, the most usual
> problem is conflicting speech-dispatcher and voxin configuration files.  I
> installed mlocate then as root ran "updatedb" then find voxin.ini and
> spd.conf and delete them all.  I can still see so I don't know if this is
> wise if you don't have enough sight to see the console or terminal.  Gilles
> would know which of these files are the correct locations for the files.
> The other and safer method is to find the voxin.ini and spd.conf file with
> the latest date and time and replace all the other files of the same name
> with the latest file.
> 
> Also contrary to what I have read, you have to run spd-conf as root and
> configure system wide settings if you use a console login as I do.
> Otherwise you will just get espeak on console login.
> 
> Best wishes to all,
> 
> David Ring, N1EA
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:02 PM John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > >
> >
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