[Emacspeak] Re: Changing espeak pitch, accent

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you need the espeak-ng packages rather than just plain old
espeak. 

I'm running the Ubuntu Mate 22.04 LTS and espeak builds fine. I think
you probably need libespeak-ng-dev 

Patrick Smyth via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:

> Hi Krzisztof,
>
> After sending the last email, it did occur to me that the version might likely be out of date, and yes, I was using an ancient version
> 50 that came from Ubuntu repositories.
>
> I've got the version 56 source and recompiled it. When I go to recompile the server, though, I get a C linking error.
>
> g++ -g    -O2 -fPIC  -DPIC  -pedantic -ansi -Wall -Wno-long-long --std=c++11 -I/usr/include/tcl8.6   -c -o tclespeak.o tclespeak.cpp
> tclespeak.cpp:41:10: fatal error: espeak-ng/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory
> 41 | #include <espeak-ng/speak_lib.h>
>
> I've installed espeak-ng, libespeak-dev, and espeak-data from aptitude and logged back into my user and it's still not finding this
> file. Any tips on this? I'm on Linux Mint, which for all intents and purposes is Ubuntu LTS 20.04. Should I try installing espeak-ng from
> source, which seems like it will be an adventure in itself?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Best,
> Patrick
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 6:37 PM, Krzysztof Drewniak via Emacspeak wrote:
>
>  Hi Patrick,
>
>  Just as a sanity check, which version of emacspeak are you running? And have you recompiled the espeak server since 56.0
>  came out? The voice selection changes are rather new.
>
>  I'll note that language changes don't require a server restart.
>
>  - Krzisztof
>
>  On 6/5/2022 17:28, Patrick Smyth via Emacspeak wrote:
>
>  Hi Krzysztof,
>
>  Thanks for the quick and considerate reply. I evaluated the 
>
>  (dtk-set-language "en-us:victor")
>
>  expression and then restarted the speech engine with C-e C-s. It seemed to have no detectable effect on the voice. I tried a
>  few other strings, like "en-uk" and "en-us:betty," and the voice seemed to stay the same.
>
>  Any guesses as to why the voice is not changing? Also, what is the default Espeak voice? When I use emacspeak on
>  Windows, it uses the default espeak voice (en-us, I think), while the Emacspeak Espeak voice on my Linux Mint system
>  seems to be off, though I'm not experienced enough to say exactly what's different.
>
>  If I can get Emacspeak to use the default voice and pitch, I probably won't need to explore setting the pitch.  
>
>  Thanks again.
>
>  Best,
>  Patrick
>
>  On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 6:13 PM, T.V Raman via Emacspeak wrote:
>
>  Krzysztof Drewniak via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
>
>  Absolute pitch control will not play well 
>  with voice-lock, especially since pitch is one of the few parameters
>  that Espeak does provide for voice control. 
>  > Hi Patrick,
>  >
>  > If you're looking to change the "accent", you can use dtk-set-lang in
>  > order to change the voice variant used by espeak. For example, I use
>  > (dtk-set-language "en-us:victor") in my init file because I like that
>  > voice better.
>  >
>  > As to an absolute pitch control, I haven't added one, but I can look
>  > into that if you'd like me to.
>  >
>  > Yours,
>  >
>  > Krzysztof
>  >
>  > On 6/5/2022 15:12, Patrick Smyth via Emacspeak wrote:
>  >
>  >     Hi Emacspeakers,
>  >
>  >     Hope you're all having a good weekend. I wanted to ask about
>  >     changing the voice features like pitch and accent while using
>  >     Espeak with Emacspeak. It seems there's only one custom variable,
>  >     which sets the speaking rate. I've been playing around overwriting
>  >     some functions in the espeak-voices.el, though that doesn't seem
>  >     like a particularly efficient way to set options. I've searched on
>  >     this list, and it seems that there's been some discussion of
>  >     providing a user API for this, but I didn't find much that's
>  >     actionable. Any guidance here would be appreciated.
>  >
>  >     Best,
>  >     Patrick
>  >
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