Orca with Emacspeak Server?

Hello,

I'm trying to run Orca on a machine running Free BSD and
with to use 
an emacspeak speech server Eflite instead of Festival.  I
understand 
that there is someplace to specify that an emacspeak server
should be 
used by Orca.  How do I do this?  Eflite, by itself,  is now
working.


Thanks,


Dave


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Dave Hunt writes ("Orca  with Emacspeak Server?"):
> I'm trying to run Orca on a machine running Free BSD
and with to use 
> an emacspeak speech server Eflite instead of Festival. 
I understand 

You will need to apply the one line patch attached to this
mail. It is
against the current orca cvs but it should work with earlier
versions
too. Maybe, this patch could be included into orca.

Then, put the following into ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py

import orca.espeechfactory
orca.settings.speechServerFactory = 'orca.espeechfactory'
orca.settings.speechServerInfo = ['eflite', 'eflite']
orca.espeechfactory.SpeechServer.location =
"/usr/share/emacspeak/servers"
orca.espeechfactory.SpeechServer.config["rate"]=
35

The above assumes that emacspeak is installed under
/usr/share/emacspeak.

Then you will have to add a line that says
"eflite" to the file
/usr/share/emacspeak/servers/.servers and create a link from
/usr/share/emacspeak/servers/eflite to /usr/bin/eflite or to
where ever
you have eflite installed.

Restart orca and eflite should come up talking.

Best regards, Lukas

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On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:13:57AM EST, Lukas Loehrer wrote:
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> Dave Hunt writes ("Orca  with Emacspeak
Server?"):
> > I'm trying to run Orca on a machine running Free
BSD and with to use 
> > an emacspeak speech server Eflite instead of
Festival.  I understand 
> 
> You will need to apply the one line patch attached to
this mail. It is
> against the current orca cvs but it should work with
earlier versions
> too. Maybe, this patch could be included into orca.

This patch looks like a bit of a dirty hack to me, as I
would say that 
eflite has a different voice schema to dectalk, so you may
have problems 
using this.

To make this work properly, one would have to know about the
voice 
schema of Eflite, and write the appropriate files for orca
to make it 
work properly. I have every intension of doing the same
thing for the 
doubletalk server at some point.
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Luke Yelavich writes ("Re: Orca with Emacspeak Server?
(patch)"):
> This patch looks like a bit of a dirty hack to me, as I
would say that 
> ...
> To make this work properly, one would have to know
about the voice 
> schema of Eflite, and write the appropriate files for
orca to make it 
> work properly. 

Well, this is really the same way emacspeak itself uses
eflite at the
moment. eflite is specifically written to work with the
dectalk driver
of emacspeak as far as I can tell. It will ignore any voice
commands
it does not support. There is only one voice in eflite
anyway. In that
sense, you could say that eflite itself is a bit of a hack,
but it
does its jub. If flite should ever support more than one
voice, you
can still give it its own module. Things flite does support
like
speech rate and pitch work with the dectalk driver.

Best regards, Lukas
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