Re: espeakf?

[Thomas Ward <slingshooter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I am using eflite right now I was just merely looking into tthe 
possability of using the full blown festival with emacs.


On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>    I finally got around to wanting to try espeakf, the festival server
>    for emacspeak, ...
> 
> I don't know anything about espeakf, but you could try eflite, which
> is a Festival/Emacspeak server.
> 
> `eflite', with Festival and Emacspeak does not provide different
> `voices' so voice lock does not work; but otherwise, it seems fine to
> me.
> 
> Here are my notes:
> 
> 
> eflite, Festival, and Emacspeak
> -------------------------------
> 
> EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak
> that allows it to interface with Festival Lite,
> 
>     http://eflite.sourceforge.net/
> 
> as of 2002 Dec  8
> 
>  wget -c http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/eflite/eflite-0.3.4.tar.gz
> 
> 
> 2002 Sep  3
> 
> It turns out that the eflite driver in the Emacspeak installed
> by Debian is more up-to-date than the version I have been using and
> works better than before.
> 
> I got an English-speaking Emacspeak running on a laptop with an
> ordinary sound card by installing these Debian packages from the
> `testing' distribution:
> 
>     apt-get install flite      # Festival Lite, the text-to-speech synthesizer
>     apt-get install eflite     # The Emacspeak driver for Festival Lite
>     apt-get install emacspeak  # The Emacspeak acoustic desktop.  
>                                  The Debian `testing' is a version 15
>     apt-get install eflite-dev # The development Emacspeak driver,
>                                  which may not be necessary
> 
> or
> 
>   pushd /usr/local/src
>   wget -c http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/eflite/eflite_0.3.4-1_i386.deb
> 
> 
> In addition, I rewrote the
>     /usr/bin/emacspeak
> shell script for my set up like this; you can adapt it:
> 
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # emacspeak - execute emacs with speech enhancements
> #$Id: emacspeak.sh.def,v 15.0 2001/11/20 20:05:30 raman Exp $
>     if [ -f /etc/emacspeak.conf ]
>     then
>     . /etc/emacspeak.conf
> fi
> 
> if [ -f ~bob/.emacs-21 ]
> then
> 	INITSTR="-l ~bob/.emacs-21"
> fi
> 
> CL_ALL=""
> for CL in $* ; do
> 	if [ "$CL" = "-o" ]; then
> 		DTK_PROGRAM=outloud
> 		export DTK_PROGRAM
> 	elif [ "$CL" = "-q" ]; then
> 		INITSTR=""
> 	else
> 		CL_ALL="$CL_ALL $CL"
> 	fi
> done
> 
> export EMACS_UNIBYTE=1
> exec emacs -q  --no-site-file \
>     --eval '(setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" load-path))'\
>     --eval '(setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak" load-path))'\
>     --eval '(setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp" load-path))'\
>     -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el \
>     --eval '(setq  emacspeak-speak-time-format-string "Time is %_H hours %M minutes UTC, on %A, %_d %B %Y ")'       \
>     -fn 10x20 -bg darkblue -fg white -geometry 80x48                \
>     -name 'Emacspeak' -T 'Emacspeak'                                \
>     -l ~bob/.emacs-for-emacspeak                                    \
>     $INITSTR $CL_ALL
> 
> ################ end /usr/bin/emacspeak ################
> 
> 
> Where  ~bob/.emacs-for-emacspeak
> contains the following
> 
>     ;; ~bob/.emacs-for-emacspeak
>     ;; as of 2002 Sep  3, need the following for help to work:
> 
>     (defun emacspeak-view-setup-keys()
>       "Setup emacspeak convenience keys"
>       (declare (special view-mode-map))
>       (loop for i from 0 to 9
>             do
>             (define-key view-mode-map
>               (format "%s" i)
>               'emacspeak-speak-predefined-window))
>     ;;;convenience keys
>       (define-key view-mode-map "\C-j"
>         'emacspeak-hide-speak-block-sans-prefix)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "\M- " 'emacspeak-outline-speak-this-heading)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "\M-n"
>         'outline-next-visible-heading)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "\M-p" 'outline-previous-visible-heading)
>       (define-key view-mode-map " " 'scroll-up)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "\d" 'scroll-down)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "P" 'dtk-pause)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "R" 'dtk-resume)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "S" 'dtk-stop)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "t" 'emacspeak-view-line-to-top)
>       (define-key view-mode-map ","
>         'emacspeak-speak-current-window)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "\M-d"
>         'emacspeak-pronounce-dispatch)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "c" 'emacspeak-speak-char)
>       (define-key view-mode-map "w" 'emacspeak-speak-word)
>       (emacspeak-view-optimize-view-keys))
> 
> 
> 
> I commented out all of the default contents of
>     /etc/emacspeak.conf
> and inserted the following in it instead:
> 
> ## for eflite
> export EMACS_UNIBYTE=1
> export DTK_TCL=/usr/bin/eflite
> 
> Finally, I removed
> 
>     /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/sounds/emacspeak.mp3
> 
> This configuration lacks different `voices' so voice lock fails; but
> otherwise, it works.
> 
> ################ end eflite, Festival, and Emacspeak ################
> 
> 

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