<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Jerry, </div>It's already installed, unfortunately. Package pygobject2-2.28.6-14.fc23.x86_64 is already installed, skipping. </div><div>I have managed to convert some of Aleksey's code to work with Gst. It isn't perfect, but speech comes out. So maybe that's a clue. I think I can convert my Activity to use Gst. Apparently later versions of Sugar can support that. </div><div> </div>James Simmons </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Jerry Vonau <<a href="mailto:me@jvonau.ca" target="_blank">me@jvonau.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Think you might be missing the pygobject2 rpm, from 'dnf info pygobject2' Description : The pygobject2 package provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library : for use in Python programs. Hope it helps and/or works, Jerry <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > On January 23, 2016 at 12:55 PM James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > James, > > I actually had some standalone programs in the MYOSA book. It looks like > the problem is with importing gst. I get this stack trace: > > [jsimmons@olpc Adding_TTS_gtk3]$ ./gst_simple_example.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./gst_simple_example.py", line 24, in <module> > import gst > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gst-0.10/gst/__init__.py", > line > 193, in <module> > from _gst import * > ImportError: could not import gobject (could not find _PyGObject_API > object) > > I have installed gstreamer-plugins-espeak: > > Package gstreamer-plugins-espeak-0.4.0-7.fc23.x86_64 is already > installed, > skipping. > > The code I'm using is one of the examples written by Aleksey Lim: > > import gi > gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') > from gi.repository import Gtk > import gst > > def gstmessage_cb(bus, message, pipe): > if message.type in (gst.MESSAGE_EOS, gst.MESSAGE_ERROR): > pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_NULL) > > pipeline = 'espeak text="Hello, World!" ! autoaudiosink' > pipe = gst.parse_launch(pipeline) > > bus = pipe.get_bus() > bus.add_signal_watch() > bus.connect('message', gstmessage_cb, pipe) > > pipe.set_state(gst.STATE_PLAYING) > > Gtk.main() > > > You can't get much simpler than that. > > I'll keep looking at this, but my guess is that something didn't get > installed. > > James Simmons > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, James Simmons <<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>> > wrote: > > > James, > > > > Correction, it looks like the Clock Activity uses Gst. You've given me > > some things to try out. Thanks. > > > > James Simmons > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:56 PM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> > > wrote: > > > >> G'day James, > >> > >> Here's some ideas. > >> > >> Can you try the imports by hand in a Python interpreter to find which > >> are failing and why? > >> > >> Can you remove your exception handlers temporarily to find out whether > >> the import is failing, or something else? > >> > >> What environment are you developing within? > >> > >> Can you use 'from sugar3.speech import SpeechManager'? > >> > >> > >> <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/speech.py" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blob/master/src/sugar3/speech.py</a> > >> > >> See example of use, the Clock activity: > >> > >> <a href="https://github.com/godiard/clock-activity/blob/master/speaker.py" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/godiard/clock-activity/blob/master/speaker.py</a> > >> > >> Can you check you are looking at latest Speak source? It looks > >> different to yours. See Speech activity on GitHub: > >> > >> <a href="https://github.com/godiard/speak/blob/master/local_espeak.py" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/godiard/speak/blob/master/local_espeak.py</a> > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:21:21PM -0600, James Simmons wrote: > >> > I have been neglecting my Sugar Activities for a long time, and I'm > >> trying to > >> > get them back in shape and using GTK3. I find that my Read Etexts > >> Activity, one > >> > of the first to use Aleksey Lim's gstreamer for espeak, no longer > >> works. I have > >> > code in there which is supposed to detect the presence of the gst > >> > espeak > >> > package and use it if available and hide the speech buttons on the > >> toolbar if > >> > it cannot. > >> > > >> > Needless to say, the buttons are hidden. > >> > > >> > I'm looking for Activities that use speech and work. The obvious > >> candidate, > >> > Speak, has code in Git that looks very much like the code I'm using. > >> > I > >> saw > >> > several versions in Git and they all use similar code: > >> > > >> > [1]<a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py</a> > >> > > >> > shows the code I use to detect whether gst-plugins-espeak will work. > >> The log > >> > messages show it disabled. > >> > > >> > I thought updating the code to use Gst might be the answer, but I > >> > don't > >> have > >> > that working either. > >> > > >> > Are there any working applications that use gst-plugins-espeak? > >> > > >> > James Simmons > >> > > >> > References: > >> > > >> > [1] > >> > <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/readetexts/mainline/blobs/master/speech.py</a> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Sugar-devel mailing list > >> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > >> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> James Cameron > >> <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>