suggestion to add the mbrola voices on vinux 6 and later

[Amir-Trend Plus]

hi, for now  vinux comes with espeak and svox pico, all though the pico tts broke after updating to the latest using sudo apt-get upgrade. so can mbrola voices, be added to vinux? but for now i can only make the english british voice work, the others are instlaled but did not appear in the speech-dispatcher. sorry and thanks

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 01:33:34AM AEDT, Amir-Trend Plus wrote:
> hi, for now vinux comes with espeak and svox pico, all though the pico tts
> broke after updating to the latest using sudo apt-get upgrade. so can
> mbrola voices, be added to vinux?

Mbrola voices are proprietary, and I believe unredistributable.

As for TTS Pico, how does it break? Do you get no speech at all, or does something else happen? Could you get speech dispatcher logs from /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/log?

Thanks.

Luke

[B. Henry]

I've made a couple of espeak voices, nothing incredibly innovative, but they are a bit tweaked beyond just adding a variant.
I've found these voices stand the test of time, and a few other people who have tried them say they like them as well. Actually, I mostly use the
default U.S. English espeak voice, but when I want something different use my custom voices.
I'd like to see these included in Vinux so others can have more options, especially female ones, as there are none available out of the box, and people
have asked for this.
Rob indicated that he, or maybe it was you, had some kind of a problem trying to add voices to the espeak package.

As for pico, I'll try to run it and see how it works for me now. Over the years I've found it to be rather unstable, e.g. I remember losing speech after
switching between pico voices rather frequently.
If I still have trouble with it I'll look at logs and post them so you and anyone else who knows more about speech-dispatcher than I do can take a
look.

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Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 07:12:59AM +1100

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[Luke Yelavich]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 07:51:31AM AEDT, B. Henry wrote:
> I'd like to see these included in Vinux so others can have more options, especially female ones, as there are none available out of the box, and people
> have asked for this.

Please get them upstream into espeak-ng.

Luke

[Amir]

Hi,

attached is the speech-dispatcher log.

hope this is the correct file.

str:

1. insert +space, then right arrow. voice tab is selected.

2. tab three times, focus moves to the synthesizer. the last item is
espeak, the second item is pico, third is generic and first is default.
choose the second.

3. shift tab four times, ok is the focus now, press space.

4. Silent.

5. orca+space, right arrow once, tab three times, press the end key or
press down arrow until you hear the ding, or it should be two times,
espeak is selected, should be.

6. shift tab four times, now ok button is the focus, hit space and boom!

[Rob Whyte]

Hi,

please also provide the pico.log from the same directory.

Cheers

Rob

[Amir]

Hi,

i enter on pico.log, seems empty.

the file manager also, in fact, orca, says that the size is 0b.

[Rob Whyte]

Turn the loglevel to 5 in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.log, restart
and reproduce please.

Then the pico.log should be propigated.

[Amir]

hi,

still empty. i've set the log level to 5, then killall -9 orca
speech-dispatcher, and open orca again, choose pico, it stop speaking,
then i choose espeak again, it speaks and i go to that folder where the
loggs are located, still pico is empty. but the speech-dispatcher log is
about 900 kb. pico? 0.

maybe you can control my machine and try the fix?

[Amir]

hi again,

sorry for spammy.

i've installed the libttspico-utils and then i've uncomment the pico
module, in speechd.conf, still no go. but if i uncomment the
pico-generic (or something similar, it ends with generic),

and there will be two pico, one pico and another pico generic. the pico
generic produces voice, but no rate or pitch or person (language)
selection. stuck with default. On the other hand, the pico only
synthesizer, produces nothing.

the log is quite big but i;ll attach it, speech-dispatcher.log
but the actual size is about 10 mb, after zip it become kb? just let me know if it wont open on your system.

On 02/19/2017 01:12 PM, Rob Whyte wrote:

[Amir]

Hi,

just reinstall vinux, and then choose pico as default synth. Next,
instead of updating the whole system, I updated orca to 3.22.1, and pico
stop working. also, when the pico is working on vinux, i mean before i
update the orca to 3.22.1, and if i type pico2wave in the terminal, it
said that the libttspico-utils is not installed. but i am using pico to
read that error! wow! any fix for this?

thanks

On 02/19/2017 01:12 PM, Rob Whyte wrote:

[B. Henry]

Howdy Luke and all,

Yes, I thought of this. I have no real interestr in getting involved with the espeak-ng project at this time, but think I can perhaps pass them along to
someone who is already contributing odds and ends.
I do want to try to do something to improve espeak spanish one of these days, but for now have no time to feel out a new community, mailing list etc, so
will try and get em through a side door if possible for now...smile.

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Luke Yelavich wrote:

Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:24:42AM +1100

[B. Henry]

Can confirm your experience, foolishly did not look for the extra entry in synths list first test, and only got silence of course even though
pico-generic was uncommented.
Now I can indeed hear that generic voice, but no control as you say, Amir, so it's pretty useless for me. Not to mention that file extensions like pdf
and txt with no vowels are just breathy phonyms instead of pronounced letters like one gets with espeak and most other synhs.
We have to find a way to use the "normal" pico driver module again to get anything of value out of this TTS for many users, certainly for me anyway...

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Amir wrote:
Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 02:50:23PM +0800