In article <003101c6f530$0925b7e0$5802a8c0 at ERGO11>, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem with [eSpeak] though; in that it's not > pronouncing things properly. Letters like g don't pronounce at all, > either alone or phinetically, and it pronounces my name (chris) as a > hiss. > ANyone got any ideas on that? it's speak version 1.11a. That sort of problem is usually caused by having different versions of the speak program, the dictionary files (eg. espeak-data/en_dict) and the phoneme data ( espeak-data/phondata,phontab,phonindex). Try installing the current version, 1.16 and make sure that both the speak program and the espeak-data that it uses are both updated. http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Note that it looks first for an espeak-data directory in your home directory first, and only if that's not found does it use the one in /usr/share.
