Correction: instead of talkwith spd read: talkwith soft spd Le 04/04/2022 à 23:19, Didier Spaier a écrit : > Well Chime_and_all, let me chime in. > > 1. Slint doesn't ship the talkwith script, but a different one, named speak-with. > > 2. talkwith can be found in the archive provided here: > ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/speakup-3.1.6.tar.bz2 > in the tools directory > > I ran talkwith here (in a yet to be released Slint64-15.0) and it still works. > I attach a copy of the script. > > I having both espeakup and speechd-up installed, As in the kernel I run > currently has the speakup drivers provided as modules, I first typed as root: > mopdrobe speakup_soft # this also loads the speakup module as a dependency > then to start espeakup: > talkwith soft espeakup > then to start speechd-up > talkwith spd > then to start a my (non existing) Dec Talk: > modprobe speakup_dectlk > talkwith dectlk > All worked, but I can't check the last command as I do not owning such hardware. > > So no need to fiddle manually with /sys if you use talkwith. > > I can't help with installating speechd-up in Debian that I do not use. > > PS I also typed: > tcsh talkwith soft espeakup > which displayed: > Illegal variable name > So Chime, I know that tcsh is the shell you are used to, but you certainly would > do us a favor typing your commands from another one before requesting help. > > Here I use the bash shell, you could probably use ash or dash as well. > > Cheers, > Didier > > > Le 04/04/2022 à 02:37, Gregory Nowak a écrit : >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 12:36:25PM -0700, Chime Hart wrote: >>> last year I purchased some hi quality voices from Oralux, which are software >>> speech. When I have Allison installed, I can send her text through spd-say. >>> Making matters more complex, speech-dispatcher will not seem to install on >>> this Debian Sid machine. >> >> This is contradictory. Having spd-say working implies a working and >> installed speech-dispatcher. So, I will assume you have >> speech-dispatcher installed and spd-say installed and working on one >> machine, but not another. In that case saying speech-dispatcher won't >> install doesn't help us help you. >> >>> Guidance I've received from 2 sources, says I must >>> install and have espeak talking before I can switch to Allison, which is an >>> embedded voice. >> >> If these voices interface through speech-dispatcher, then that would >> make sense. However, the only way I know of to interface speakup to >> speech-dispatcher right now is through speechd-up. So, it seems like >> you would have to install speechd-up, get that working with >> speech-dispatcher and espeak-ng, and once you have that working get >> speech-dispatcher to use your purchased voices. >> >>> When I was running Slint on a laptop, Didier had created a >>> talk-with command to easily switch synths, but his script would need to be >>> re written for Debian. >> >> I can confirm the talkwith provided in the speakup-tools package for >> debian bullseye seems to be broken. Issuing talkwith soft comes back >> with: >> >> /usr/sbin/talkwith: 88: shift: can't shift that many >> >> I took a look at the script, but don't see where the problem is. >> >>> In addition, if I unload the DecTalk module, I won't >>> have speech, or would their be a way of having both DecTalk and software >>> speech at the same time? >> >> No, you can't have both your dectalk and software speech at the same time. >> >>> So, can some1 please provide exact commands I can >>> switch synths on the fly? I ran a locate for softsynth but nothing found. >> >> No surprise. What you want is the speakup_soft module. You would as >> root load that with: >> >> modprobe speakup_soft >> >> then start espeakup or speechd-up, depending on which one you use. I >> think that would be something like: >> >> systemctl speechd-up start >> or >> systemctl espeakup start >> >> I'm not a systemd user, so someone else can correct the above if >> they're not correct. >> >> Now, assuming you have both speakup_soft and speakup_dectlk kernel >> modules loaded, you can switch between them as root with: >> >> echo dectlk >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth >> >> for the dectalk, and >> >> echo soft >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth >> >> for software speech. Remember that before switching to dectlk you >> should stop espeakup or speechd-up, and after switching to soft you >> should start espeakup or speechd-up. I seem to recall you use csh, so >> maybe someone can roll all that into a csh script for you. >> >> Greg >>
