Hi Thanks all for your help. I tried entering the command "Voxin-say" on the terminal and here is what I get: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1032:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:831: audio open error: Device or resource busy TIA, Ishe On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:51 "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea(a)arrl.net> wrote: > John, > > voxin-say is installed when you installed your voxin voice. Open > a terminal or console and type > in voxin-say -L (note the capital "L". > > tom-embedded-compact,en,US is a Voxin Embedded Voice and those > voices do not have a > speech server inside emacspeak, only the old IBM TTS voices have > an emacspeak speech > server inside emacspeak. > > Best wishes, > > David > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 21:43 John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> > wrote: > > hmmm, I am not sure which set of voices I have, its something > like > voxin3.3 or something like that, but it does have voxin-say > and it > works perfectly and the language says > tom-embedded-compact,en,US > and maybe this is why emacspeak does not work? > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:09:33 -0500, > D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via Emacspeak wrote: > > > > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] > > [1.1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>] > > Hello John and Ishe and the friendly emacspeak group. > > > > I have occasionally had the emacspeak installer not do a > > successful > > installation but I completely uninstalled the installer from > > my system, use > > the same installer but there is a switch to use - that is > > after the command > > to run the script a further comment like --uninstall - but > > I'm not sure of > > what the switch is, so check with --help after the installer > > name. > > > > Before uninstalling check with voxin-say to see what > > languages you have > > installed and then to make them speak. > > > > voxin-say -L > > > > Will give you a list of installed languages. > > > > The name of the language must appear in the voxin.ini file > > for this to be > > spoken. > > > > After you see your language to see what's installed, try > > having it speak. > > > > voxin-say "Hello John and Ishe, this is voxin speaking" | > > aplay > > > > Where | is the bar which on a USA keyboard is the key above > > ENTER shifted. > > > > Remember this only works for the old IBM TTS voxin voices, as > > the Voxin > > Embedded voices - which are much nicer - do not have a speech > > engine inside > > emacspeak. Hopefully someone will volunteer, they are > > excellent voices. > > > > I'd be happy to help you off list as at least the initial > > setting up of > > voxin is probably off topic, but of course if a moderator > > emails me to > > continue, I will be glad to help. > > > > I'm only an expert (ha, ha) because I keep doing it right, > > but I was only > > able to do it because of Gilles Casee's expert assistance. I > > think I > > annoyed him so much, he wrote Father Christmas and told him > > to fill my > > Christmas boxes with coal dust. Only kidding, Gilles, you > > wouldn't do > > this, but I did ask many questions and received much help > > from you even > > though I must have asked stupid questions, you gave me all > > the information > > and help I needed which I am passing along freely to others! > > > > If you get voxin-say "words to speak" | aplay to speak, the > > most usual > > problem is conflicting speech-dispatcher and voxin > > configuration files. I > > installed mlocate then as root ran "updatedb" then find > > voxin.ini and > > spd.conf and delete them all. I can still see so I don't > > know if this is > > wise if you don't have enough sight to see the console or > > terminal. Gilles > > would know which of these files are the correct locations for > > the files. > > The other and safer method is to find the voxin.ini and > > spd.conf file with > > the latest date and time and replace all the other files of > > the same name > > with the latest file. > > > > Also contrary to what I have read, you have to run spd-conf > > as root and > > configure system wide settings if you use a console login as > > I do. > > Otherwise you will just get espeak on console login. > > > > Best wishes to all, > > > > David Ring, N1EA > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:02 PM John Covici > > <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > > > I have had the same problem, I installed emacspeak, I have > > > voxin > > > working using orca, but here is what I get when I try to > > > use ./outloud > > > from the servers directory under emacspeak: > > > > > > Using SoX > > > 19No language foundtts > > > while executing > > > "load $tclTTS/atcleci.so" > > > (file "./outloud" line 459) > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 03:16:26 -0500, > > > Ishe Chinyoka via Emacspeak wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > HI David, > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, for me on Archlinux, Voxin fails to work > > > > in > > > > Emacspeak. I > > > > even tried the option of downloading the Emacspeak > > > > Installer from > > > > Oralux. Restarting my system did not have the Voxin > > > > voices. Putting that > > > > line of " > > > > (setq "dtk_Program" "outloud")" > > > > instead results in Emacspeak going silent. So I had to > > > > just > > > > resign to > > > > the fact of using Espeak voices. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ishe > > > > > > > > > [1.2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > > [2 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The > question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici wb2una > covici(a)ccs.covici.com -- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
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