How to configure Qtspeech - actually configuring speech-dispatcher

[Jeremy Whiting]

Hi Gustav,

Just out of curiosity, which distribution and version of linux are you
using?

To answer your question though, crontab is an application that runs things
at different times on a unix based system. crontab -e is a command to edit
the cron table of commands. Running crontab -e and adding the line you
mentioned:

@restart /usr/bin/festival --server

will make festival --server run at each boot of the computer I believe.

Hope that helps. Another possibility according to arch linux's wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#Can't_open_/dev/dsp is to add
some lines to the festival configuration to allow it to open the /dev/dsp

BR,
Jeremy

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 7:25 PM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I edited this thread some to make it easier to follow my current post.
> It is not directed at Simion, though his comments are helpful to make my
> post clearer.
> As a result of these discussions I have more clearly understood the role
> of speech-dispatcher.  Since will be used with Qtspeech, it makes sense
> to work with it.   So,  Perching with google  I understood how central
> speech-dispatcher is to linux TTS.  I tried again to configure Festival
> with speech-dispatcher.  I want to try and configure a different voice.
> I wan to try and experiment with different voices.  Espeak is OK, but I
> feel I have to move forward.  But again I am stuck.  Here is where I am at.
>
> I could never get speech output even on the CLI.
>
> The error I would get was -festival: can't open /dev/dsp
>
> It is due to a bug.   The workaround is:
> Create ~/.festivalrc with the following content
>
> ;use ALSA
> (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
> (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
>
>
> I then needed to configure speech-dispatcher, so I ran:
>
> spd-conf
>
> as a regular user.  It creates the speech-dispatcher global server
> configuration file:
>
> in ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/|speechd.conf|
>
> This configures speech-dispatcher (interactively) with a number of
> variables, the default voice is espeak.
>
> I then edit speechd.conf, which allows for many different voices.  I
> change:
>
> |#AddModule "espeak" "sd_espeak" "espeak.conf"||
> |
> |AddModule "festival" "sd_festival" "festival.conf"|
> |
> |
> |and|
> ||||
>
> |#DefaultModule espeak |
>
> |DefaultModule festival The next step I do not understand: "|We need to
> run |festival| as a server in order to make |speech-dispatcher| use it as
> default. We can do that by adding the following line at the end of the file
> that's open when we use the
> command: |sudo crontab -e|:
>
> |@reboot /usr/bin/festival --server"|
>
> |||I can't understand the last step.  I've never used crontab fore, any
> help would be appreciated, Gustav.|
> ||
>
> ||
>
>
>
> On 9/22/19 9:29 AM, Simion wrote:
>
>
> snip
>
> > As I said I suggest to get used of using faster and faster voices,
> > your family will understand and you will read same texts 2 times
> > faster so you gain time, at that speed any voice will sound robotic,
> > this would not work if you want other to listen with you (but you can
> > have a normal speed and a fast speed talker in jovie)
> >
> >
> > On 9/22/19 2:54 PM, Gustav Degreef wrote:
> >>
> >> snip
> >>
> >> Â From what you and others are saying and from what I've read, I think I
> >> understand better.  Correct me if I am wrong, but don't you have
> >> to tell
> >> speech-dispatcher which voice (e-speak, festival, etc.) to use?  If I
> >> can figure out how to tell speech-dispatcher which voice to use then
> >> Jovie (or Qtspeech) will then output my choice?  I have looked
> >> into it,
> >> and there are several (about 6 different) voices I can use in Linux.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
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