Re: [mh] FC14/64 bit sound solution for Cepstral voices

[Ron B. <rb...@be...>]

"Matthew Campbell" <dv...@gm...> wrote in message 
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Thanks much Ron for working this out.  Can you post a writeup of this
to the documentation wiki?

Matt
I believe that I did but do not see the entry. I put it under "How Tos". 
Does it need apporval before appearing or did I hose it?

Ron

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Ron Blout <rb...@be...> wrote:
> using cepstral voices "swift" is the name of the voice engine.
>
> doing:
> swift hello
> you get:
> oss_audio: failed to open audio device /dev/dsp
> this audio device does not exist under FC14 AND as of this post
> Cepstrals voice do use OSS audio drivers.
>
> Solution:
> you will require the following rpm and possibly others. might be a good
> idea to install all PulseAudio rpms.
> here is the one you definitely need:
> pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-7.fc14.x86_64 : PulseAudio sound server
> utilities
>
> this rpm provides a wrapper called padsp
>
> now with this rpm you can:
>
> padsp swift hello
>
> and the cepstral voice of your choice will speak. No oss_audio:
> failed to open ....
>
> now to fix this for "mh" you need to complete the following 2 steps:
>
> 1. when you install cepstral voice engine it places the engine in
> /opt/swift/bin/swift
> this binary is pointed to by /usr/local/bin/swift, i.e.,
> /usr/local/bin/swift -> /opt/swift/bin/swift
> remove the link, i.e. /usr/local/bin/swift and replace it with a file
> called swift that looks like this:
> ------cut here------
>
> #!/bin/sh
> if test -x /usr/bin/padsp ; then
> exec /usr/bin/padsp /opt/swift/bin/swift "$@"
> else
> exec /usr/bin/opt/swift/bin/swift "$@"
> fi
>
> ------cut here------
> chmod +x this file (/usr/local/bin/swift) or you will get permission 
> errors
> in the data/log/print.log file
>
> 2. mh.private.ini
> for me there was only one change to mh.private.ini and that was to
> comment out
> the "voice_text_card" parameter as noted below.
> I include this code fragment info.
> #
> # voice setup using the cepstral speech engine
> # this sets the sound program. in my case I am using Cepstrals
> voice
> # engine known as "swift".
> speak_engine=swift
> voice_names=male=>Cepstral David
> voice_text=swift
> voice_text_swift=/usr/local/bin/swift
> #voice_text_card=/dev/dsp
> sound_program=play
> sound_pre_speak=/usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav
>
> I am not totally convinced that this is the best solution. In googlin I 
> cam
> across something called
> OSS PROXY that uses a module called CUSE (lower case actually). this 
> module
> does
> exist in the FC14/64 bit distro. do a "modinfo cuse" to see results. You
> can read more
> about this here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OSSProxy This 
> might
> be the better solution.
>
> For me the above process seems to take of the issue of not having "voice"
> working. So for now on to
> other things.
>
> hope this helps.
>
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