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[Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>]

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 AT ccs.covici.com> 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:
>> >> 
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>> >> If you want Voxin, you’ll need Outloud, not Vocalizer.
>> >> Devin Prater
>> >> r.d.t.prater AT gmail.com
>> >> 
>> >> Https://devinprater.micro.blog
>> >> 
>> >> > On Apr 14, 2024, at 3:44 AM, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List)
>> >> > <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> 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.
>> >> > 
>> >> > -- 
>> >> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>> >> > How do
>> >> > you spend it?
>> >> > 
>> >> >         John Covici wb2una
>> >> >         covici AT ccs.covici.com
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