That sounds like a sound system problem, remind us what distribution and version you're using? Also what happens when you try to run aplay directly in the same terminal? cheers Peter Ishe Chinyoka via Emacspeak writes: >Hi > >Thanks all for your help. I tried entering the command "Voxin-say" >on >the terminal and here is what I get: > >ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1032:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave >aplay: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy > > > >TIA, > > > >Ishe > > >On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:51 "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea(a)arrl.net> >wrote: >> 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: >> > >> > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] >> > [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 >> > > > >> > > >> > [1.2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] >> > [2 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org >> >> -- >> Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. 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