Is there a project that is jovie successor? (fwd)
Jeremy Whiting
jpwhiting at kde.org
Fri Oct 29 16:48:21 BST 2021
Gustav,
Sorry, I didn't respond yesterday. The espeak.log you sent looks like
espeak is getting text fine from kmouth and okular. I'm betting that since
kmouth and okular do not tell QtSpeech which voice to use it's using some
default that isn't ideal. Were you ever able to get hello_speak example to
work? With it you can select each voice that QtSpeech knows about and
probably see what default it's using for a given language. Here when I open
it on my opensuse 15.2 vm it starts with English, but has some west indies
voice as the default which pronounces everything strangely. If I change it
to another english voice it all sounds the same as spd-say.
So it won't be in the next release since feature freeze will be soon or has
already happened, but I'll get voice selection in at least okular's
settings window where you can already select between flite and speechd. And
do likewise for KMouth with the other improvements I'll do to KMouth. I
think once you're able to select a voice (and language) in those just like
in hello_speak it should be pretty straight forward to make it sound the
way you want.
BR,
Jeremy
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:50 AM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> Â
> Yes, correct -Â So just to confirm the mary had a lamb lines sound fine
> on the speaker/headphones but the larger text from pdf via okular still
> sounds .... as if there are .. (2 things) being said at the same time?
>
> I created the file testfile.txt and put the exact content you speicified
> and ran "cat ./testfile.txt | spd-say -x -e". The output was one
> voice, perfectly clear, the entire text content without mistake or hiccup.
>
> Since Kmouth has the exact same issue as Okular, I copied the same exact
> text as in testfile.txt (without your commands) and had Kmouth read it
> out. Same 2 streams as in Okular. I'm attaching the sdlogs as a zip (I
> deleted the old logs and logged out first befoe running kmouth). HTH.
> Thanks, Gustav
>
> On 10/27/21 9:48 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > Hi Gustav,
> >
> > That looks a lot more interesting. So just to confirm the mary had a
> > lamb lines sound fine on the speaker/headphones but the larger text
> > from pdf via okular still sounds strange or as if there are multiple
> > things being said at the same time?
> >
> > I don't see much difference between the 2, I tried sending longer text
> > through okular here and got some weird different accent somehow, but
> > see similar things in espeak.log about it selecting en+0 like you have
> > there. I think it's possible espeak is switching languages for some
> > reason, maybe when it gets non utf8 text like the character between
> > the copyright symbol "Authors ... Contributions" but I tried having
> > spd-say read just that and it read it fine.
> >
> > I then put a whole block of text from your log like this into a
> > testfile.txt and use this to read:
> >
> > testfile.txt contents:
> > <speak>Statement of Ethics
> > Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for
> > publication of this case report and any accompanying images.<mark
> > name="__spd_0"/>
> > Authorsâ–¡~@~Y Contributions
> > Elena Rudakova was the primary physician who treated the
> > patient and who obtained and analyzed the data for the study.<mark
> > name="__spd_1"/>
> > Seema Mahesh analyzed the data, wrote the manuscript, and
> > obtained the references.<mark name="__spd_2"/> George Vithoulkas was
> > the guide,
> > final approver, and guarantor of the work.<mark name="__spd_3"/> All
> > authors have
> > read and approved the final version of the manuscript.<mark
> > name="__spd_4"/>
> > Acknowledgements
> > The authors are thankful to Aishwarya Madhusudhan for the
> > technical support.<mark name="__spd_5"/>
> > </speak>
> >
> > cat ./testfile.txt | spd-say -x -e
> >
> > -x makes it parse the <speak> and <mark> tags, etc. and -e makes it
> > read text given from standard input that cat is giving it.
> >
> > When I tried that here it read about a line, then got an assertion.
> >
> > From my espeak.log here:
> >
> > Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [333272]: Espeak: module_speak().
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [333297]: Espeak: Requested data:
> > |publication of this case report and any accompanying images.<mark
> > name="__spd_0"/><mark name="__spd_0"/>
> > | 0 105
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [384129]: Espeak: Leaving module_speak()
> > normally.
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [385487]: Espeak: Playback semaphore on.
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [385499]: Printing reply: 701 BEGIN
> >
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [385509]: Printed
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:19 2021 [385518]: Espeak: Sending 51283 samples
> > to audio.
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:20 2021 [878168]: CMD: <STOP
> > >
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:20 2021 [878194]: Espeak: module_stop().
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:20 2021 [878217]: Espeak: stopping...
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:20 2021 [878237]: CMD: <QUIT
> > >
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:20 2021 [878278]: Espeak: Stop or pause semaphore
> on.
> >  Wed Oct 27 13:28:20 2021 [878299]: Espeak: Stopping audio.
> > Assertion 'pthread_mutex_destroy(&m->mutex) == 0' failed at
> > pulsecore/mutex-posix.c:83, function pa_mutex_free(). Aborting.
> >
> > I think espeak is having issues with the longer text given from okular.
> >
> > I took a quick look at using espeak-ng on opensuse 15.2, but that
> > doesn't seem to be possible, nothing is providing sd_espeak-ng
> > speech-dispatcher module from the available packages which would be
> > needed to use espeak-ng instead of espeak.
> >
> > If you create a text file like above and cat it into spd-say -x -e
> > like above does it duplicate then also?
> >
> > BR,
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:41 AM Gustav Degreef <gustav97 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry Jeremy. I rushed the previous response and did not see
> > the last
> > part regarding the Debug 1. Yes, I had to change the Debug from 0
> > to 1.ÂÂ
> > I rebooted to make sure both espeak and speech-dispatcher used the
> > updated config files. I had spd-say speak 3 sentences and
> > I had Okular
> > read 1/2 page of a pdf three times, just in case. Here are the
> > zipped
> > logs. I deleted the old logs before rebooting. Thanks for
> > your patient
> > efforts, Gustav.
> >
> > On 10/26/21 8:00 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > > Gustav,
> > >
> > > Yeah, I think the missing bits were the Debug 1 in espeak.conf
> > file. I
> > > had that here but forgot to mention it originally. Also, the extra
> > > details are in the espeak.log not speech-dispatcher.log it
> > seems. The
> > > one you sent was empty, but that's probably because of the missing
> > > Debug 1 in there. Once that's in place it should give a bunch of
> > this
> > > kind of details.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:41 AM Gustav Degreef
> > <gustav97 at gmail.com <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>
> > > <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com <mailto:gustav97 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> > >
> > >   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.......
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636516]: CMD: <SET
> > >   > >
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636587]: CMD: <SPEAK
> > >   > >
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636617]: Espeak: module_speak().
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636627]: Espeak: Requested data:
> > >   > |<speak>hello</speak>| 0 20
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636637]: Espeak:
> > >   set_language_and_voice en 1
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636647]: Espeak:
> > >   set_language_and_voice
> > >   > name=en+0
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636840]: Espeak: Successfully set
> > >   voice to
> > >   > "en+0"
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636850]: Espeak:
> > >   set_language_and_voice en 1
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636860]: Espeak:
> > >   set_language_and_voice
> > >   > name=en+0
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [636973]: Espeak: Successfully set
> > >   voice to
> > >   > "en+0"
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [687987]: Espeak: Rate set to 170.
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [738788]: Espeak: Volume set to 200.
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [937535]: Espeak: Pitch set to 50.
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:25 2021
> > [987698]: Set punctuation mode.
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021
> > [37917]: Set capitals mode.
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021
> > [88426]: Espeak: Leaving
> > >   module_speak()
> > >   > normally.
> > >   >  Tue Oct 26 09:31:26 2021
> > [88689]: Espeak: Playback semaphore on.
> > >   >  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
> >
>
>
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