I think you need the espeak-ng packages rather than just plain oldespeak.I'm running the Ubuntu Mate 22.04 LTS and espeak builds fine. I thinkyou probably need libespeak-ng-devPatrick Smyth via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:> Hi Krzisztof,>> After sending the last email, it did occur to me that the version might likely be out of date, and yes, I was using an ancient version> 50 that came from Ubuntu repositories.>> I've got the version 56 source and recompiled it. When I go to recompile the server, though, I get a C linking error.>> g++ -g -O2 -fPIC -DPIC -pedantic -ansi -Wall -Wno-long-long --std=c++11 -I/usr/include/tcl8.6 -c -o tclespeak.o tclespeak.cpp> tclespeak.cpp:41:10: fatal error: espeak-ng/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory> 41 | #include <espeak-ng/speak_lib.h>>> I've installed espeak-ng, libespeak-dev, and espeak-data from aptitude and logged back into my user and it's still not finding this> file. Any tips on this? I'm on Linux Mint, which for all intents and purposes is Ubuntu LTS 20.04. Should I try installing espeak-ng from> source, which seems like it will be an adventure in itself?>> Thanks again.>> Best,> Patrick>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 6:37 PM, Krzysztof Drewniak via Emacspeak wrote:>> Hi Patrick,>> Just as a sanity check, which version of emacspeak are you running? And have you recompiled the espeak server since 56.0> came out? The voice selection changes are rather new.>> I'll note that language changes don't require a server restart.>> - Krzisztof>> On 6/5/2022 17:28, Patrick Smyth via Emacspeak wrote:>> Hi Krzysztof,>> Thanks for the quick and considerate reply. I evaluated the>> (dtk-set-language "en-us:victor")>> _expression_ and then restarted the speech engine with C-e C-s. It seemed to have no detectable effect on the voice. I tried a> few other strings, like "en-uk" and "en-us:betty," and the voice seemed to stay the same.>> Any guesses as to why the voice is not changing? Also, what is the default Espeak voice? When I use emacspeak on> Windows, it uses the default espeak voice (en-us, I think), while the Emacspeak Espeak voice on my Linux Mint system> seems to be off, though I'm not experienced enough to say exactly what's different.>> If I can get Emacspeak to use the default voice and pitch, I probably won't need to explore setting the pitch.>> Thanks again.>> Best,> Patrick>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 6:13 PM, T.V Raman via Emacspeak wrote:>> Krzysztof Drewniak via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:>> Absolute pitch control will not play well> with voice-lock, especially since pitch is one of the few parameters> that Espeak does provide for voice control.> > Hi Patrick,> >> > If you're looking to change the "accent", you can use dtk-set-lang in> > order to change the voice variant used by espeak. For example, I use> > (dtk-set-language "en-us:victor") in my init file because I like that> > voice better.> >> > As to an absolute pitch control, I haven't added one, but I can look> > into that if you'd like me to.> >> > Yours,> >> > Krzysztof> >> > On 6/5/2022 15:12, Patrick Smyth via Emacspeak wrote:> >> > Hi Emacspeakers,> >> > Hope you're all having a good weekend. I wanted to ask about> > changing the voice features like pitch and accent while using> > Espeak with Emacspeak. It seems there's only one custom variable,> > which sets the speaking rate. I've been playing around overwriting> > some functions in the espeak-voices.el, though that doesn't seem> > like a particularly efficient way to set options. I've searched on> > this list, and it seems that there's been some discussion of> > providing a user API for this, but I didn't find much that's> > actionable. Any guidance here would be appreciated.> >> > Best,> > Patrick> >> > _______________________________________________> > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> -->> Thanks,>> --Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)> â?? 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