Re: [Emacspeak] trying to get a decent serverr to work on linux

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, that is  interesting -- I did search and I can't even find a way
to download any outloud software -- is it still available anywhere?  I
will also check out the dectalk software and see what its using.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:01:58 -0400,
Tim Cross wrote:
> 
> 
> There is no straight-forward way to make the vocalizer voices
> work. Someone would need to write a speech server for that engine.
> 
> The IBM ViaVoice TTS will likely work on your system provided your
> system is correctly configured to still support 32 bit apps. I'm running
> Fedora 39, which is a rolling release and therefore running latest
> versions of most packages and it runs fine.
> 
> I do recall you mentioned you were running Gentoo, which does make
> things a lot harder, but I expect you enjoy that lower level control,
> otherwise why run Gentoo! Personally, I don't have the patience and as
> I've got older, I'm less interested in fiddling at the OS level (I do
> recall the days it would take over 12 hours to compile my Linux kernel!)
> 
> BTW with respect to the software dectalk, which you mentioned suddenly
> stopped working. This seems odd. I'm wondering if the issue could be
> that your version of the dectalk is built against ALSA rather than
> pulseAudio. I had an issue with the software dectalk suddenly failing
> due to a bug in recent versions of pipewire that broke sound apps linked
> directly against ALSA. While this pipewire bug has since been fixed, it
> is possible your running the version with that bug.
> 
> By default, the software dectalk will build against ALSA unless you have
> the pulseAudio development files installed. Once you install the
> pulseAudio development files, it will build against pulseAudio, which I
> think gives better performance than ALSA these days.
> 
> You should be able to tell which sound libs your version is linked
> against with the ldd utility on the shared libs to see if they are
> linked against pulse. 
> 
> John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I think I have the vocalizer voice -- I don'
> > 't think the old ibm ones will work anymore on my software -- any way
> > to have both, or to make the vocalizer ones work with emacspeak?
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:00:51 -0400,
> > Tim Cross wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Voxin includes two types of voices, the IBM ViaVoice (i.e. outloud) and
> >> the Vocalizer voices. Only the IBM ViaVoice Outloud works with
> >> emacspeak.
> >> 
> >> When you purchased voxin, which TTS voices did you purchase?
> >> 
> >> Also, have you run the make in the linux-outloud directory and did it
> >> run without errors?
> >> 
> >> I am using voxin wiht Emacspeak on Fedora Linux. I also run
> >> speech-dispatcher.
> >> 
> >> However, with speech-dispatcher, the voices I'm using are
> >> lee-embedded-premium and karen-embedded-premium. These are vocalizer
> >> voices and do not work with emacspeak. However, I also purchased the
> >> british_english voice, which is the IBM ViaVoice outlouod TTS voice.
> >> There is also an american_english for the IBM TTS.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > outloud says
> >> > Using SoX
> >> > 19No language foundtts
> >> >     while executing
> >> >     "load $tclTTS/atcleci.so"
> >> >         (file "./outloud" line 442)
> >> >
> >> > Yet voxin works on speech-dispatcher .
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:30:21 -0400,
> >> > Devin Prater wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> >> >> If you want Voxin, you’ll need Outloud, not Vocalizer.
> >> >> Devin Prater
> >> >> r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxx
> >> >> 
> >> >> Https://devinprater.micro.blog
> >> >> 
> >> >> > On Apr 14, 2024, at 3:44 AM, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> >> >> > <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Hi.  Well, I was using software dectalk, butt it stopped speaking and
> >> >> > c-e c-s did not work, I had to go to another window and kill the emacs
> >> >> > process.  What I really would like to do is to use my voxin voice
> >> >> > which works great with speech dispatcher.  I tried to use outloud
> >> >> > which I thoughtt would give me that server, but it said no language
> >> >> > file found, so I am in a quandry here and any suggestions would be
> >> >> > appreciated.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > I am using the gentoo operating system, and voxin is working great
> >> >> > with speech dispatcher.
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > -- 
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> >> >> > How do
> >> >> > you spend it?
> >> >> > 
> >> >> >         John Covici wb2una
> >> >> >         covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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         John Covici wb2una
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