How could i set up the speaking clock in KDE ? Or in general the text to speech utility ?
I have the jovie icon in the system tray but i cannot set it. No speechers availiable. i have installed espeak and the speech-dispatcher.
dglent wrote:It's realy a great experience to be mageia user, thanks one more time mikala
The package did nt arrive yet to my system, i am waiting it, i have just a question: it will work only with pulseaudio enabled ?
mikala wrote:(& it's even working in french)
[dglent@localhost ~]$ spd-conf
Speech Dispatcher configuration tool
Do you want to setup a completely new configuration? [yes] :
>
Do you want to create/setup a 'user' or 'system' configuration [user] :
>
User configuration already exists.
Do you want to rewrite it with a new one? [no] :
>yes
User configuration created in /home/dglent/.speech-dispatcher/conf
Configuring user settings for Speech Dispatcher
Default output module [espeak] :
>
Default language (two-letter iso language code like "en" or "cs") [en] :
>el
Default audio output method [alsa] :
>pulse
Default port [6561] :
>6560
Configuration written to /home/dglent/.speech-dispatcher/conf/speechd.conf
Basic configuration now complete. You might still need to fine tune it by
manually editing the configuration above file. Especially if you need to
use special audio settings, non-standard synthesizer ports etc.
Do you want to start/restart Speech Dispatcher now and run some tests? [yes] :
>
Starting Speech Dispatcher in user-mode
[Sun May 22 12:43:00 2011 : 178732] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.7 starting
Testing Speech Dispatcher using spd_say
Did you hear the message about Speech Dispatcher working? [yes] :
>
Speech Dispatcher is working
Speech Dispatcher works. Do you want to skip other tests? [yes] :
>no
Testing whether Espeak works
Did you hear the message 'Espeak seems to work'? [yes] :
>
Espeak is working
Testing PULSE sound output
open(): Δεν υπάρχει τέτοιο αρχείο ή κατάλογος
Can't play audio via paplay /usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatchertest.wav
Your audio doesn't seem to work, please fix audio first or choose
a different method.
Testing whether Python Speech Dispatcher library is in path and importable
Diagnostics results:
Speech Dispatcher is working
Synthesizers that were tested and work: []
Audio systems that were tested and work: ['pulse']
Python Speech Dispatcher module is importable
End of diagnostics results
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714774] speechd: Reading configuration for pattern emacs:*
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714805] speechd: Reading configuration for pattern *:gnomespeech:*
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714823] speechd: Configuration has been read from "/home/dglent/.speech-dispatcher/conf//speechd.conf"
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714835] speechd: Speech Dispatcher Logging to file /home/dglent/.speech-dispatcher//log//speechd.log
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714843] speechd: Speech Dispatcher started with 2 output modules
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714847] speechd: Speech Dispatcher will use port 6560
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 714860] speechd: Openning socket connection
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 715150] speechd: Speech Dispatcher 0.6.7 started on port 6560 and waiting for clients ...
[Sun May 22 13:05:35 2011 : 717918] speechd: Connection closed
[Sun May 22 13:05:56 2011 : 167989] speechd: G LIST LENGHT IS 2
[Sun May 22 13:09:46 2011 : 42070] speechd: G LIST LENGHT IS 2
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 415997] speechd: Error: Broken pipe to module.
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416009] speechd: Output module working status: 0 (pid:22232)
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416017] speechd: Output module terminated abnormally, probably crashed.
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416022] speechd: Error: Output module failed
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416028] speechd: Warning: Didn't find prefered output module, using default
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416033] speechd: Couldn't load default output module, trying other modules
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416037] speechd: Trying other output modules
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416043] speechd: Error: No output module seems to be working, using the dummy output module
[Sun May 22 13:09:49 2011 : 416047] speechd: Output module working status: 1 (pid:22240)
Assertion 'e->mainloop->n_enabled_defer_events > 0' failed at pulse/mainloop.c:287, function mainloop_defer_enable(). Aborting.
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [308918]: CMD: <SET
>
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309019]: CMD: <SPEAK
>
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309052]: speak()
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309063]: Requested data: |<speak>Είναι 13:14</speak>|
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309076]: Dummy: leaving write() normaly
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309103]: Semaphore on
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309350]: Waiting for child...
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309410]: Starting child...
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309461]: Entering child loop
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309473]: child: synth commands = |play /usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/dummy-message.wav > /dev/null 2> /dev/null|aplay /usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/dummy-message.wav > /dev/null 2> /dev/null|paplay /usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/dummy-message.wav > /dev/null 2> /dev/null|
Sun May 22 13:14:01 2011 [309485]: Speaking in child...
Sun May 22 13:14:24 2011 [758372]: Executed shell command 'play /usr/share/sounds/speech-dispatcher/dummy-message.wav > /dev/null 2> /dev/null' returned with 0
Sun May 22 13:14:24 2011 [758417]: Done, exiting from child.
Sun May 22 13:14:24 2011 [758994]: Child exited
Sun May 22 13:14:24 2011 [759022]: child terminated -: status:1 signal?:0 signal number:0.
dglent wrote:i saw this:
Sun May 22 12:59:00 2011 [652392]: Requested data: |<speak>Είναι 12:59</speak>|
And i set in the conf file the language as fr and not el
After that i dont have the problem but it cannot read in greek. It spells letter by letter the word
espeak 1.44.03
Fixes:
Lang=el, mk. Was speaking words as individual letters.
Name : espeak
Version : 1.43.03
Release : 2.mga1
Group : Sound
Size : 1283083 Architecture: x86_64
Source RPM : espeak-1.43.03-2.mga1.src.rpm
URL : http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Text to speech synthesis engine
Description :
eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for
English and other languages.
dglent wrote:maybe because we have an old versionespeak 1.44.03
Fixes:
Lang=el, mk. Was speaking words as individual letters.Name : espeak
Version : 1.43.03
Release : 2.mga1
Group : Sound
Size : 1283083 Architecture: x86_64
Source RPM : espeak-1.43.03-2.mga1.src.rpm
URL : http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Text to speech synthesis engine
Description :
eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for
English and other languages.
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