[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Global Text to Speech

[James Simmons]

All,

Speech-dispatcher was used by the earliest version of Read Etexts to
support speech.  The big downside is that you need to configure it.  When
you install the RPM for it it installs espeak, Festival, and some other
stuff too.  Aleksey Lim created the gstreamer plugin, and also modified
Read Etexts so that it could use either speech-dispatcher or gstreamer.  I
prefer gstreamer myself because it Just Works.  I've heard nice things
about Festival voices but I never got them working.

James Simmons


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

>
> There's also speech-dispatcher which is an option (and which I think
>> was used by OLPC quite some time ago).
>>
>> Petr
>>
>>
>
> Yes. I like the possibility of using not only espeak but festival too,
> but right now will be add another dependency.
>
> I  have heard very nice examples of Festival voices,
> but I have tried using Festival from the python api of speech-dispatcher
> without success.
>
> In F16 if I do:
>
> [gonzalo at nautilus honey]$ python
> Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 27 2011, 01:40:22)
> [GCC 4.6.1 20111003 (Red Hat 4.6.1-10)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>
> ...
> >>> import speechd
> >>> client = speechd.SSIPClient('test')
> >>> client.list_output_modules()
> ('espeak', 'dummy')
>
> I have installed:
>
> [root at nautilus /]# rpm -qa | grep festival
> festival-freebsoft-utils-0.10-2.fc15.noarch
> festival-1.96-18.fc16.x86_64
> festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-18.fc16.x86_64
> festival-lib-1.96-18.fc16.x86_64
>
> [root at nautilus /]# rpm -qa | grep speech
> speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-6.fc16.x86_64
> festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-18.fc16.x86_64
> speech-dispatcher-python-0.7.1-6.fc16.x86_64
>
> Do you know if I need install anything more?
>
> Gonzalo
>
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