[raspberry-vi] Re: Linux voices
- From: Christopher Emery <cpe.list@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:38:20 -0400
Hello all,
I am new to this list and I just tryed this on my R-Pi with Raspbain
(latest ver) installed espeak then tried
espeak "hello world" and I got:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ espeak "hello world"
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.front
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround40
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround41
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround50
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround51
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.surround71
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.iec958
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.hdmi
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.modem
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.phoneline
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only
playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:877:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) slave plugin
does not support mmap interleaved or mmap noninterleaved access
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1030:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Any ideas?
Thank you.
Sincerely in Christ,
Christopher
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Michael A. Ray <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
>
> Personally my preference is for espeak. It's very easy to get espeak
> installed and make it say something.
>
> But we don't currently have any screen-readers reliably running. I did
> get yasr compiled and running but it is so unstable I can't recommend it
> to anyone for use on the Pi.
>
> The best bet is SpeakUp! and there are a couple of us working on getting
> that running.
>
> Back to espeak...it will run as a stand-alone tts application, or it is
> usable by screen-readers via something called speech-dispatcher.
>
> If you're using Raspbian, then these steps should result in some speech:
>
> sudo apt-get install espeak
>
> Answer 'y' when asked if you want to continue, then when it has finished:
>
> espeak "Hello world"
>
> and you should hear speech, along with some nasty pops if you're
> listening to analog audio from the 3.5mm jack.
>
> I have also used Festival:
>
> sudo apt-get install festival
>
> Then:
>
> festival --tts filename
>
> To read the contents of filename. The festival voice is ok but not as
> good as espeak imho.
>
> Mike
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