Greg,
Thank you for this clarification. I think you are pretty accurate based on what
i have read and seen.
I am really just hoping to some how get Orca up and running as it should on the
PI. I now have Ubuntu Mate 15.10 running on my PI 3 and even though it says
Orca is running when the PI starts up there is no speech being output. Hummmm
so many things I want to find a solution for. Thanks Greg.
Go Devils!
Bryan Duarte
ASU Software Engineering Graduate Student
QwikEyes CEO
âlet nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing
away: God never changes. patience obtains all things. whoever has God lacks
nothing; God alone suffices.â
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On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Gregory Osborne <Gregory.Osborne@xxxxxx> wrote:
Bryan,
You are correct that espeak is a commandline text-to-speech tool that simply
takes whatever you provide it with and renders it into spoken text.
So, if it were the only thing you had, it wouldn't be an ultimate solution
for blind accessibility.
You can use it in bash scripts or other things to provide some useful
feedback if you know what you're doing.
But, what I think you've missed along the way is this...
Speakup or more properly, Linux-Speakup is a set of linux kernel modules and
... well, not patches at this point since they're intigrated into the stream
linux kernel, but basically, it's a set of modules that reside partially
inside the heart of the linux OS and partially that can be built as modules
to be loaded as needed to provide support for either some old serial port
hardware synthesizers or via another step or two, software synthesis.
For most people these days, it's the latter that is used, I dare say. You use
linux-speakup with the soft synthesizer module, that produces speech that is
then renders to a virtual device, which then is either picked up by speech-up
or by espeakup, and then used by either speech-dispatcher for orca or similar
or in the console case, espeak.
So think of it as the kernel sends speech to espeakup to espeak.
Or kernel to speech-up to speech-dispatcher and then speech-dispatcher to an
end-text-to-speech process such as espeak, orca, or similar.
In any case, maybe this helps, and if I'm wrong or missed something, someone
please correct.
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Hey list I have a few questions about espeak. I have not used it before and
everything I read seems to speak to it being a command line text to speech
engine but does it really only work when you call "espeak" before each
command? I thought it would allow you to start and stop it so you could have
an interactive screen reader but this does not seem to be the case.
Mike I used your posting and cloned your git repo to set it up so thanks for
that. From what I can tell espeak does not seem very useful if it has to be
called every time you issue a command. Oh and on the issuing a command, how
do you get espeak to read the output of a command? I tried to do it several
different ways with no success.
I know you are all busy but if you get a chance could someone clarify this
misunderstanding? Thanks
On Mar 28, 2016, at 11:31 PM, Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello.
Which instructions?
If by instructions you mean the 'instructions' on the web page on the
site, they are perfectly adequate and following the steps will get
speakup working.
You can't just download speakup. It is kernel modules. The modules
are already included in the distribution of Linux you have written to
your SD card. To get it to work with the audio code named in the
instructions I think you mean you need to clone the code from github
and follow those instructions.
If you have a Pi 3 you can just download the image from the site and
speakup is already working.
Mike
On 29/03/2016 02:42, Jordanyanezz wrote:
Is there somewhere I can download speak up the instructions are not
helpful thank
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