All,<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>James Simmons</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There's also speech-dispatcher which is an option (and which I think<br>
was used by OLPC quite some time ago).<br>
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Petr<br><div><div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>Yes. I like the possibility of using not only espeak but festival too,<br>but right now will be add another dependency.<br><br>I have heard very nice examples of Festival voices,<br>
but I have tried using Festival from the python api of speech-dispatcher<br>without success.<br><br>In F16 if I do:<br><br>[gonzalo@nautilus honey]$ python<br>Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 27 2011, 01:40:22) <br>[GCC 4.6.1 20111003 (Red Hat 4.6.1-10)] on linux2<br>
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.<br>>>> <br>... <br>>>> import speechd<br>>>> client = speechd.SSIPClient('test')<br>
>>> client.list_output_modules()<br>('espeak', 'dummy')<br><br>I have installed:<br><br>[root@nautilus /]# rpm -qa | grep festival<br>festival-freebsoft-utils-0.10-2.fc15.noarch<br>festival-1.96-18.fc16.x86_64<br>
festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-18.fc16.x86_64<br>festival-lib-1.96-18.fc16.x86_64<br><br>[root@nautilus /]# rpm -qa | grep speech<br>speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-6.fc16.x86_64<br>festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-18.fc16.x86_64<br>
speech-dispatcher-python-0.7.1-6.fc16.x86_64<br><br>Do you know if I need install anything more?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Gonzalo<br>
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