Re: FreeTTS with Gnome-Speech Question

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

Hi, Marc:

Thought I'd answer this on the list even though I told you the answer by phone ...

You need to edit the Makefile for the Emacspeak ViaVoice speech server and put:

CC=g++

just below the top line.

How does that old saw go? For the want of a nail the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe the horse was lost. For the want of a horse ...


Marc Mulcahy writes:
> From: Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>
> 
> Janina,
> 
> Along these lines, how do you get Emacspeak working on the latest RedHat 8 
> series.  I'm getting errors like unresolved symbol _gxx_personality_v0 
> which has something to do with GCC 3.2 I think.  I take it you have it 
> working?
> 
> Marc
> 
> At 11:06 AM 3/26/2003 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >Hi, Bill:
> >
> >The person who told us was T.V. Raman. I know, because I was with you when 
> >he said that.
> >
> >I subsequently tried Raman's Emacspeak fix on ViaVoice and it did improve, 
> >but did not fix, things. It brought the ViaVoice speed down enough to be
> >intelligible. But, it was still running around 2X speed.
> >
> >Raman is supposed to send me a fix for my .emacs. I'll forward that and 
> >his lisp code inside the Emacspeak files, if I can find it.
> >
> >Of course, maybe we should just ask him!
> >
> >Bill Haneman writes:
> >> From: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
> >>
> >> I was told (by whom, I forget) that the problem has to do with support
> >> for mono 16 bit versus stereo; the newer sound drivers apparently don't
> >> support 16bit mono.  Apparently the mono stream from festival is getting
> >> split over two channels somehow, which has the effect that each channel
> >> gets every other sample, thus doubling the speed.
> >>
> >> There's a workaround for this that basically takes the mono 16bit output
> >> and converts it to stereo on-the-fly (just by duplicating the samples)
> >> but I can't remember who told me about it, nor how to do it.
> >>
> >> I believe that there should be a way to configure festival to send
> >> stereo output, which would be another solution.
> >>
> >> Does someone on this know more about this, for instance how to
> >> reconfigure festival in this way?  I suppose one possibly useful
> >> consequence of this is that festival voices could be configured to come
> >> out of one stereo channel of the other, which might have some utility.
> >> (Perhaps gnome-speech could export this channel-fade behavior as one of
> >> its properties, for speech engines that support it.)
> >>
> >> -Bill
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 23:30, Bue Vester-Andersen wrote:
> >> > Hi Janina,
> >> >
> >> > I have experienced Festival behaving exactly that way with redhat 
> >8.0. and
> >> > an integrated ac97 sound card in an IBM Netvista. I suppose it is 
> >something
> >> > to do with the sound driver or the communication between festival and 
> >the
> >> > driver.
> >> >
> >> > But your question kind of answers mine. I think I will try and install
> >> > Phoebe tomorrow with sighted assistance and then patch with speakup 
> >to get
> >> > running in text mode. Did you just get gnopernicus and compile 
> >streight away
> >> > with phoebe or did you also have to get other external packets as well?
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > Bue
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: gnome-accessibility-list-admin gnome org
> >> > [mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Janina
> >> > Sajka
> >> > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:58 PM
> >> > To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> >> > Subject: FreeTTS with Gnome-Speech Question
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I'm tryhing to get Gnopernicus working again. The compiles appear to 
> >have
> >> > gone without a hitch using the latest Red Hat
> >> > betas, named Phoebe. And, Gnopernicus launches just fine.
> >> >
> >> > My problem is that I get Mickey Mouse from Festival, which is the only
> >> > speech test-speech seems to be able to find.
> >> >
> >> > I have tried both the Red Hat supplied Festival-1.4.2, and a compile 
> >of the
> >> > February release of Festival-1.4.3. Same
> >> > story, speech appears to come at 4-times speed (or even greater).
> >> >
> >> > I get the same undesirable effect from ViaVoice 5.1, which I have only 
> >as
> >> > binaries, of course.
> >> >
> >> > Strangely, Festival Lite, which I compiled afresh, as there's now a 1.2
> >> > release, works fine.
> >> >
> >> > I have also obtained the j2sdk-1.4.1_02 from sun.com, and have compiled
> >> > FreeTTS from cvs today. FreeTTS talks
> >> > appropriately when I launch either the freetts (client) or frettsServer
> >> > scripts. However, test-speech doesn't seem to
> >> > see FreeTTS.
> >> >
> >> > Am I starting them correctly? I cd to the directory containing these 
> >scripts
> >> > and issue ./[script.name] as root. Should I
> >> > do this differently?
> >> >
> >> > NOTE: If, instead, i run the jar script, I get:
> >> >
> >> > ./jarfreetts
> >> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> >> > com/sun/speech/freetts/FreeTTS
> >> >
> >> > Can I use FreeTTS with gnome-speech? How should I start and test?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any help.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> >
> >> >                             Janina Sajka, Director
> >> >                             Technology Research and Development
> >> >                             Governmental Relations Group
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina afb net		Phone: (202) 408-8175