Hi there, Thanks for the info. I tried it, but when I log back into my console, I still get uk english. thanks for the tip, though. It was darn sure worth a try. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Sent from sonar test box using alpine 2.20.14 On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Silas S. Brown wrote: > Hi Mark, I haven't been following espeak-NG development, but I guess it's possible that > those files are now obsolete and you have to use command-line arguments to set the voice. > So have you tried this command: espeak -ven-us "hello from America" > > If that works and you want to use it in screen readers etc, I expect the best way would > be to move your real espeak binary to a safe place and create a script called espeak that > does something like > > #!/bin/bash > espeak -ven-us $@ > > then save that as /usr/local/bin/espeak and chmod +x it. I'm assuming you're on a > GNU/Linux or Unix machine; I wouldn't know how to do it on Windows but you might get > somewhere with batch files. And the above script won't help if the screen reader is > using the shared library version of eSpeak. > > Silas > > -- > Silas S Brown http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22 > > "Time and unexpected events overtake them all" - Ecclesiastes 9:11 > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
