Re: [Espeak-general] Problems building espeak and voice data from source

[Jonathan D. <jo...@ta...>]

On 28 Jun, Reece Dunn <ms...@go...> wrote:

> So you don't need to run espeak-phoneme-data if you run espeakedit?

The espeak-phoneme-data is only needed to convert espeak-data which has
been compiled on a little-endian processor into espeak-data for a
big-endian processor.  If you compile the data using espeakedit on a
big-endian procrssor then you get big-endian data.

> Q: Do you need to run espeakedit to construct the espeak-data, or is
> it sufficient to use what is in the svn repository?

The svn repository only includes the source data, not the compiled data.

To get compiled data (the files in espeak-data), you can either run
espeakedit and do  Compile->Compile phoneme data  from its menu (or do
espeakedit --compile from the command-line).  Or alternatively you can
download the it from the eSpeak website.

Note that if you using a development version of eSpeak (eg. from SVN)
then you must use the corresponding version of espeak-data (i.e. not
the Ubuntu version).

The simplest method is to download both the espeak program code and its
compiled data from:
http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html

Then unpack the ZIP archive, go into the /src directory and do:

make
sudo make install
 
The fact that there were files missing from the SVN repository shows
that nobody has got the files from there recently!
  

> $ espeak -v en hello
> env2 = 1
> env2 = 105
> Segmentation fault

That's probably an error in the file  espeak-data/intonations  (perhaps
an incompatible version).  This file is compiled from its source data
at:  phsource/intonation  by using espeakedit with the menu option:
Compile -> Compile intonation data

Currently this file is not compiled with

espeakedit --compile 

or  Compile -> Compile phoneme data

Probably I should include it.


> I am then copying the built voices to ./espeak-data-local and running
> the platform's espeak-phoneme-data on it.

You should only run espeak-phoneme-data to convert little-endian
espeak-data to big-endian espeak-data.  If your processor is
little-endian, then don't run the espeak-phoneme-data program.

> > Does eSpeak pick up your data from $HOME/espeak-data which has been
> > compiled or converted for big-endian?

> From an installed version that has been through `espeakedit --compile`
> and `espeak-phoneme-data` (installed to /usr/share/espeak-data).

eSpeak picks up espeak-data from the top level of your HOME directory
(if it exists there), otherwise from /usr/share/espeak-data