Re: [Emacspeak] outloud server doesn't work, complaining of no language found

["T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the ECI (outloud) voices are no longer available, I recommend the
software dectalk -- you'll need to build it from source, but it works
well with emacspeak and it's what I use alongside the ECI voices.


Otto Diesenbacher-Reinmüller (via emacspeak Mailing  List) writes:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > many thanks for all the hints!
 > 
 > yep - missing IBM TTS is the actual reason, that it seems, that I can't
 > use the (IMHO superior) voxin voices.
 > 
 > I missed the information, that IBM TTS is no longer available, meaning
 > that it is not that easy to use with emacspeak?
 > 
 > My current solution / setup (as reference for others, or perhaps someone
 > has better ideas):
 > 
 > - I found 'multispeech' for emacspeak.  With a simple wrapper-script
 >   (see below), defining it as user defined backend in multispeech, I use
 >   directly 'voxin-say', and so I get the voxin voices.
 > 
 > - but, unfortunately this results in a rather sluggish audio feedback,
 >   but is fine f. e. to read ebooks, or other longer texts.  As daily
 >   driver, to actually use emacspeak I switch to dtk-soft, with IMHO
 >   worse voice quality, but being very responsive.
 > 
 > btw - digging into dtk / gspeak, I saw that dectalk actually provides
 > other languanges, f.e. German.  But it seems, the dtk-soft tcl script is
 > not handling the switch of languages?  At least I was not able to switch
 > to German.
 > 
 > best regards, okflo
 > 
 > #+begin_src shell
 >  #!/bin/bash
 >  while read line
 >  do
 >      voxin-say "$line"
 >  done < "${1:-/dev/stdin}"
 > #+end_src
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > "Gilles Casse" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
 > 
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > Voxin + IBM TTS is expected to be compatible with the Outloud speech
 > > server of Emacspeak.
 > > But unfortunately, Oralux can't sold anymore Voxin + IBM TTS due to a
 > > very low number of remaining runtimes.
 > > The support of IBM TTS for previous users will still continue though.
 > >
 > > Otto, the last emacspeak voxin installer (version 56.0-1) was tested
 > > against Debian 12 but not ArchLinux, sorry.
 > >
 > > It is expected to provide a very basic compatibility with the German
 > > Petra voice that you mentioned.
 > >
 > > Best wishes,
 > > Gilles
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > On 13/11/2023 14:04, Otto Diesenbacher-Reinmüller (via emacspeak Mailing
 > > List) wrote:
 > >> hi, at first let me thank T.V. and all contributors for this great
 > >> piece of software!  Being already a heavy emacs user, before having
 > >> the need for an audio desktop, emacspeak was the logical solution for
 > >> me.
 > >> 
 > >> Unfortunately I am currently struggeling getting voxin / outloud to
 > >> run with emacspeak.
 > >> 
 > >> starting outloud (in emacspeak/servers) results in:
 > >> 
 > >> ./outloud
 > >> Using SoX
 > >> 19No language foundtts
 > >>     while executing
 > >> "load $tclTTS/atcleci.so"
 > >>     (file "./outloud" line 451)
 > >> 
 > >> (I got emacspeak working with espeak and also dtk-soft, but as I am a
 > >> native german speaker, I would prefer outload/voxin with a german
 > >> voice for german texts).
 > >> 
 > >> steps to reproduce:
 > >> - OS: archlinux, but also tried current ubuntu, same result
 > >> - get current emacs via git and compile & install
 > >> - I obtained from voxin.oralux.org <http://voxin.oralux.org> the
 > >> following languages:
 > >>   - voxin-american-english-allison-compact-3.4
 > >>   - voxin-american-english-allison-high-3.4
 > >>   - voxin-german-petra-ml-high-3.4
 > >>   - installed them.
 > >>   - voxin seems to be installed correctly, as calling voxin-say
 > >>     directly in the shell works. Also orca works, and shows the
 > >>     installed voice-packages.
 > >> - checkout emacspeak via git and get all depended stuff and built it,
 > >>   also doing make in servers/linux-outloud
 > >> 
 > >> I also tried the installer from
 > >> https://github.com/Oralux/emacspeak_voxin_install
 > >> <https://github.com/Oralux/emacspeak_voxin_install> with same result.
 > >> 
 > >> Digging into atcleci.cpp with my limited cpp-knowledge, that the call
 > >> to initLanguage(interp, aLanguages, nLanguages); always results in
 > >> NODEFINEDCODESET, despite nLanguages gets the correct result of 3
 > >> languages installed.
 > >> 
 > >> Many thanks for any hints!
 > >> 
 > >> best regards - okflo
 > >> (I posted this also as an issue at gitub of emacspeak, becomeing aware
 > >> of this mailing list afterwards)
 > >> 
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