You mean the festival voices? Don't know, it won't install even after typing
every sudo command exactly as every web site says..
Matthew
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Ken Perry
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:25 AM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Still no go for more voices.
What do you think of the festvox voices?
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of blind.grey.wolf@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 5:43 AM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Still no go for more voices.
1. E Speak sounds like a person who can't even get the frogs out of their
throat.
2. I once was sighted as well, now total blind and pretty much deaf. So yes
the voice matters when you can't hardly hear, and if the voice sucks, which it
does for being a small foot print on my meager 128gig micro SD card, I'm
willing to download 100 gig of a voice that sounds like a person even if I have
to pay a little for it.
3. Its kind of funny you said that Micro$oft and Apple are million dollar
companies, yes while that is true, so is Linux. What do you think landed the
stuff on the moon ran, it sure wasn't Micro$crash and Apple pinwheeling.
4. At least Narrator don't sound like a person with a bull frog in their voice
even back in windows 95 days.
5. I've search high and low, without going into the black areas to find a
working way to get any, and I mean any voices to work, yet there is none that
works, even if you follow every key stroke to the letter.
6. all I want is one voice, just one to install. Cepstral David is all I want
to work. Yes I know its not free, yet following all the instructions step by
step does not work. I can get it to run the installer, yet it will not
install, even after typing in the required command to do so.
7. Have a Good Day.
Matthew
-----Original Message-----
From: raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <raspberry-vi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Michael A Ray (Redacted sender "mike.ray" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:57 AM
To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: Still no go for more voices.
Matthew
You're banging your head against the ceiling of your own knowledge.
All of the repositories of free and Open Source software available on all
distributions of Linux contain software which installs very easily and
comfortably.
There are things which are not accessible. There are also things which run on
Windows which are not accessible, even with the Windows internal screen reader,
Narrator.
Why are you so focused on particular voices? What is wrong with eSpeak?
Your first language is obviously English, and eSpeak does English very well
indeed, and what is more it is a very small footprint, and does not require a
working Internet connection to work.
I don't understand why so many people don't like using eSpeak. Before I went
blind, I did not spend all day bitching about the wallpaper on my desktop, I
just got on with being productive.
If something does not work, I find out why, filling holes in my knowledge as I
go.
I don't sit in front of Linux expecting everything to be spoon-fed to me.
Linux is not backed by billion dollar companies with billion dollar development
budgets.
I think it is the Voxin voices you are trying to install, I might be wrong. If
it is, then I also think Voxin is not free, it is certainly not Open Source.
If you hate Linux so much, I suggest you scuttle back to Windows, or Mac, and
let Apple and Microsoft hoover up your data while you use them.
Alternatively, you could roll up your sleeves and learn a lot of stuff by
trying to work out what is going on.
Mike
On 30/03/2021 23:40, blind.grey.wolf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello.
I've tried all the tips that was given to me on here, and none of them are
working at all.
I even went to try installing a Cepstral voice selecting Arm and David as the
voice. I had to download the package with my windows since for some reason,
you can not download any of their voice with chromium, I can get to the
voices and clicking on David does nothing.
So I downloaded the voice on windows put on thumb drive transferred the file
to the raspberry pie 400 and extracted, then ran the install file and type in
yes and nothing, just a bunch of text running down and then it goes yyyyyyy
yyyyyy.
This is really showing how lame Linux is, and why it never became main
stream, something as simple as installing a program, voice and so forth
should not be so stupidly dumb to work. It’s 2021, where is the smart in
smart devices? Seemed like its going backwards. Even Basic 101 was smarter
than this.
Anyhow, sorry about my ranting. I just want one simple voice installed and
its David, or foxen. That’s all I want working on the thing, otherwise it’s
a piece of junk OS and isn't worth messing with.
Matthew
===========================================================
The raspberry-vi mailing list
Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/raspberry-vi
Administrative contact: <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-----------------------------------------------------------
Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi logo are trademarks of the Raspberry Pi
Foundation.
This list is not affiliated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the views and
attitudes expressed by the subscribers to this list do not reflect those of
the Foundation.
Mike Ray, list creator, January 2013
