[Emacspeak] Re: Introduction & Voice Configuration Questions

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, how would get those voxin voices to work with emacspeak?  What
would have to be done to make this work?

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:51:10 -0500,
D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> 
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> John,
> 
> voxin-say is installed when you installed your voxin voice. Open a terminal
> or console and type in voxin-say -L (note the capital "L".
> 
> tom-embedded-compact,en,US is a Voxin Embedded Voice and those voices do
> not have a speech server inside emacspeak, only the old IBM TTS voices have
> an emacspeak speech server inside emacspeak.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 21:43 John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> > > [1.1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> > > 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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> >
> >          John Covici wb2una
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