RE: Error trying to run w3

[Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Robert,

You can get better sound out of E-speak if you play around with the voices.
Male 4, for instance, uses much fewer higher frequencies than the e-speak
default voice does making it much easier on the ears over long periods of
listening.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert D. Crawford [mailto:robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 11:09 AM
To: Tim Cross
Cc: tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx; emacspeak list
Subject: Re: Error trying to run w3

Thanks Tim.  This did the trick.  All my circuits are functional.  I really
wish a synth could be developed that had the same functionality and
responsiveness as outloud and sounded as good.  I don't have a problem
understanding espeak, and I do appreciate the work that has gone into it,
but I have a hard time listening to it for extended periods. 

Best regards,
rdc

"Tim Cross" <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I find the various different approaches and bits of advice more 
> confusing than helpful when it comes to getting viavoice outloud 
> working on a 64 bit system. This is partly because the different Linux 
> distros tend to handle 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit system a little 
> differently. Also, things can get complicated if you also want to run
> 64 bit tcl apps. Here is how I basically do it. (I tend to stick with 
> Debian/Ubuntu based distros)
>
> 1. Install viavoice using the voxin package. This will usually install 
> most of the necessary 32 bit libs
>
> 2. Move the atcleci.so library from the lib directory within the 
> servers/linux-outloud directory into the linux-outloud directory
>
> 3. Run the outloud script form the servers directory. You will 
> probably get some errors - nearly always about missing libs. You just 
> need to work through the process of installing these. Often the first 
> missing lib is the 32 bit version of tcl and tclx. I install them.
> Depending on your platform and whether you need both 64 and 32 bit 
> versions, you may need to change the interpreter name listed at the 
> top of the outloud script so that it calls the correct version of tcl.
> For example, on my system, I've installed the 8.5 version of the 64 
> bit Tcl and Tclx libs which I use for 64 bit stuff (it is linked to 
> tclsh as the default) and I install the 8.4 version of the 32 bit tcl 
> and tclx libs. I then have to change the interpreter line at the top 
> of the outloud script to /usr/bin/tclsh8.4 to make sure this script is 
> using the 32 bit version of tcl.
>
> The next thing which often needs to be installed is a 32 bit version 
> of the stdc++ lib. I just install that using apt-get and ensuring I 
> specify the i386 version.
>
> Sometimes, depending on the distro and its version, I may need to 
> install the 32 bit version of asound library plugins. At any rate, the 
> trick is to try running ./outloud on the command line after each new 
> bit is added until you hear outloud working. If it doesn't work, you 
> normally get a meaningful error message which tells you what library 
> it cannot load. Just follow the dots until all dependencies have been 
> met. Don't forget using things like ldd to see what libs are linked 
> against and where they are looking for files etc.
>
> HTH
>
> Tim
>
> Robert D. Crawford writes:
>  > I upgraded the installation and that particular error seems to have  
> > disappeared.  I have gotten another problem which I will include here.
>  >
>  > After installation I am no longer able to use 32-outloud.  I get 
> the  > dreaded "Process speaker not running."  Outloud was installed 
> from  > Gilles voxin package.  This is also from where I initially 
> installed  > emacspeak.  Outloud was working then and is still working
under orca.
>  > When I try
>  >
>  > ./32-outloud
>  >
>  > I get the following errors:
>  >
>  > rdc@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers$ 
> ./32-outloud  > couldn't load file "/usr/lib32/libtclx8.4.so.0":
/usr/lib32/libtclx8.4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
>  >     while executing
>  > "load /usr/lib32/libtclx8.4.so.0"
>  >     (file "./32-outloud" line 45)
>  > rdc@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers$
>  >
>  > When I try using the method described in the Makefile I get this:
>  >
>  > rdc@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers$ tcl 
> ./32-outloud  > No command 'tcl' found, did you mean:
>  > SNIP
>  > tcl: command not found
>  > rdc@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers$
>  >
>  > I assumed the correct tcl(x) libraries were installed with voxin,  
> > perhaps I am wrong.  I was also under the assumption that the 
> 32-outloud  > is a precompiled server for use on 64-bit systems.  I 
> have ensured the  > DTK environment variables have been set but I 
> don't know what else to  > do.
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  > rdc
>  >
>  > "T. V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>  >
>  > > Robert,
>  > >
>  > > Not sure why you're hitting a recursive include on  that module.
>  > >
>  > > Thanks for pointing out the uncommented timestamp line by the way  
> > > -- I fixed it in svn.  Could you please update from svn, do a  > > 
> make clean, make config and make?
>  >
>  > -- 
>  > Robert D. Crawford
robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx
>  >
>  > 
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