Is there a project that is jovie successor? (fwd)
Gustav Degreef
gustav97 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 18:40:46 BST 2021
Hi Jeremy,
I did EXACTLY as you said when I sent you the zip file. When I first
edited the .conf file, there was no output to the logs, so I rebooted
the system (I did not know how to re-start the deamon). No clue why the
output you expected is not there. So now I did the same thing again,
but I had Okular read two separate long instnaces and then had spd-say a
whole sentence twice. Here is the single log file (I did not delete the
old log file, so I figure the new info has been appended. Gustav
On 10/26/21 7:03 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Gustav,
>
> I see speech dispatcher itself started and ended a couple of times in
> there, but I don't see what text it was sent to synthesize. Did you
> try spd-say "Hello" or trying with okular to speak some document or a
> page? I was hoping to see something like this:
>
> Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [617497]: Espeak: Stop or pause thread
> starting.......
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636516]: CMD: <SET
> >
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636587]: CMD: <SPEAK
> >
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636617]: Espeak: module_speak().
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636627]: Espeak: Requested data:
> |<speak>hello</speak>| 0 20
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636637]: Espeak: set_language_and_voice en 1
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636647]: Espeak: set_language_and_voice
> name=en+0
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636840]: Espeak: Successfully set voice to
> "en+0"
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636850]: Espeak: set_language_and_voice en 1
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636860]: Espeak: set_language_and_voice
> name=en+0
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [636973]: Espeak: Successfully set voice to
> "en+0"
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [687987]: Espeak: Rate set to 170.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [738788]: Espeak: Volume set to 200.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [937535]: Espeak: Pitch set to 50.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021 [987698]: Set punctuation mode.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021 [37917]: Set capitals mode.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021 [88426]: Espeak: Leaving module_speak()
> normally.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021 [88689]: Espeak: Playback semaphore on.
> Â Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021 [88729]: Printing reply: 701 BEGIN
>
> in the espeak.log but it's empty. Ah, may need to also set espeak.conf
> to debug like this in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf:
>
> #Debugging
> Debug 1
>
> Change the 0 to 1 if it's there, otherwise add Debug 1 to the end of
> the file if it's not there at all.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:53 AM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com
> <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Jeremy. Very clear instructions. Here is the zip file,
> Gustav
>
> On 10/26/21 5:36 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > Gustav,
> >
> > Ok, the quickest way to debug this will be to set a LogDir in
> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf like this:
> >
> > #LogDir "default" <-- Comment out this one if it's not by adding
> the #
> > at the front.
> > LogDir "/home/jeremy/sdlogs/"
> >
> > sudo will be needed to edit those files in /etc/speech-dispatcher/
> >
> > you'll need to create an sdlogs folder in your home directory (I
> tried
> > using the default opensuse /var/log/speech-dispatcher path, but sd
> > running as me couldn't write there and it's complicated, better to
> > just make a new path in your home folder and point to it. Also use
> > your username, not jeremy :)
> >
> > Then when you run spd-say "Hello" or whatever it will create a
> few log
> > files in that sdlogs path. I would say do that a couple of times
> then
> > have okular speak the current page a couple of times. Then zip
> up that
> > sdlogs folder and send it here and we can take a look at what
> > speech-dispatcher is getting, and hopefully find out why it sounds
> > garbled on your audio system.
> >
> > BR,
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 8:29 AM Jeremy Whiting
> <jpwhiting at kde.org <mailto:jpwhiting at kde.org>
> > <mailto:jpwhiting at kde.org <mailto:jpwhiting at kde.org>>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >Â Â Â On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 8:09 AM Gustav Degreef
> <gustav97 at gmail.com <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>
> >Â Â Â <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>>>
> wrote:
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â Hi Jeremy,
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â Deeply appreciate your time and effort, but no luck.
> >
> >     Â Â user:~/QtSpeech/hello_speak> qmake-qt5
> >Â Â Â Â Â Info: creating stash file
> >Â Â Â Â Â /home/user/QtSpeech/hello_speak/.qmake.stash
> >Â Â Â Â Â Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: texttospeech
> >
> >
> >Â Â Â Ok, from that it seems you don't have the -devel package
> needed to
> >Â Â Â build things against QtSpeech. For that install the
> following:
> >
> >Â Â Â sudo zypper install libqt5-qtspeech-devel
> >
> >Â Â Â Then you should be able to build hello_speak.
> >
> >Â Â Â But since speech-dispatcher itself doesn't have the problem
> >Â Â Â (spd-say didn't duplicate) the problem is either in
> Okular's use
> >Â Â Â of QtSpeech (not likely, it's one line that calls
> QtSpeech) or
> >Â Â Â QtSpeech itself. On my test vm I've only got the speechd
> plugin
> >Â Â Â for QtSpeech in
> >Â Â Â /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/texttospeech/
> >Â Â Â On your machine do you have a flite plugin there also
> from some
> >Â Â Â package from 15.0 or 15.1 times maybe (I don't see any flite
> >Â Â Â plugin package in 15.2 repos, but maybe you got it before
> upgrading).
> >
> >Â Â Â I took another look at QtSpeech code itself though and I
> don't see
> >Â Â Â any way it would ever use more than one plugin or send
> the text to
> >Â Â Â multiple plugins. Then I took a look at the speechd
> plugin again
> >Â Â Â and it definitely only sends the text it gets to spd_say
> function
> >Â Â Â once. I think the next thing to try will be to enable
> debugging in
> >Â Â Â speech-dispatcher (after we are sure that's what plugin
> QtSpeech
> >Â Â Â is using) and see what text it's getting to synthesize from
> >Â Â Â okular. I'll write up some instructions for that once I
> do it here
> >Â Â Â and remember how it's done :)
> >
> >Â Â Â thanks,
> >Â Â Â Jeremy
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â user:~/QtSpeech/hello_speak> make
> >Â Â Â Â Â make: *** No targets specified and no makefile
> found. Stop.
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â Since your opensuse VM is working fine, I doube
> checked my
> >     installations. I have a 17 inch laptop and a 13
> inch old one
> >Â Â Â Â Â that I use
> >     for traveling. Both machines have a main
> partition opensuse
> >Â Â Â Â Â 15.2 and a
> >     "test" partition with opensuse 15.3. 3/4 of these
> >Â Â Â Â Â installations have
> >Â Â Â Â Â the duplicate voices in Okular and Kmouth. Only 1 15.3
> >Â Â Â Â Â installation is
> >     having a normal speech output in Ojular. All 4
> installations
> >Â Â Â Â Â are
> >Â Â Â Â Â upgraded systems (from previous opensuse 15.0, 15.1
> and prior
> >     releases.Â
> >Â Â Â Â Â So none of them is a "clean" install like your VM.
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â I tried building it on each laptop, but the same
> result. ÂÂ
> >Â Â Â Â Â You were
> >Â Â Â Â Â reight at the beginnig, it's turning out quite
> difficult to
> >     track down.Â
> >Â Â Â Â Â Any other suggestions?
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â If all else fails, I'll do a clean install of 15.3
> on one of
> >Â Â Â Â Â these 4
> >Â Â Â Â Â partitions.
> >
> >Â Â Â Â Â Thanks, Gustav.
> >
> >
> >Â Â Â Truncating the rest to get past mailing list size limit
> without
> >Â Â Â approval.
> >
>
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