Aplay works fine, I am using gentoo distribution.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 14:52:26 -0500,
<prayner(a)unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 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)>]
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