[raspberry-vi] Re: Linux voices
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:16:56 +0000
Chris,
It's normal to get these errors. I don't know how to get rid of them.
You still got the speech though, right?
You could avoid these errors by doing this:
espeak "text to be spoken" 2> /dev/null
That directs error text to go to /dev/null which is just a 'bit bucket',
a kind of black hole into which to throw stuff.
You could create an alias command for espeak and not have to type '2>
/dev/null' after every command.
It's useful when running something that takes a long time, like:
sudo apt-get upgrade
To put a command which will tell you when it's done:
sudo apt-get upgrade && espeak "Finished upgrade" 2> /dev/null
Although in the above example the text will only be spoken if the
command before the '&&' succeeds.
Mike
On 14/03/2013 01:38, Christopher Emery wrote:
> 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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