Speech

Speech

The GCS is able to provide the messages of the console via the speakers by starting with the option -speech.

On Ubuntu 10.10 this works out of the box with speech-dispatcher and espeak.

Using festival

If you want to use festival instead you need to install some packages and configure the speech-dispatcher to use festival.

1. Packages Installation

Install festival, speech-dispatcher and speech-dispatcher-festival packages, if not already installed.

2. Configuration

edit festival.conf in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ and change or uncomment the following lines:

  # Address where the Festival server runs (you have to 

  # have a Festival server running, please see documentation). 

  

  FestivalServerHost  "localhost" 

  FestivalServerPort   1314 

Then edit speechd.conf in /etc/speech-dispatcher/

  Port 6560

  

  AddModule "espeak"       "sd_espeak"   "espeak.conf"

  AddModule "festival"     "sd_festival"  "festival.conf"

  #AddModule "flite"        "sd_flite"     "flite.conf"

  #AddModule "espeak-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-generic.conf"

  #AddModule "epos-generic" "sd_generic"   "epos-generic.conf"

  #AddModule "dtk-generic"  "sd_generic"   "dtk-generic.conf"

  #AddModule "ibmtts"       "sd_ibmtts"    "ibmtts.conf"

  #AddModule "cicero"        "sd_cicero"     "cicero.conf"

  

  DefaultModule festival
  

  #LanguageDefaultModule "en"  "espeak"

  LanguageDefaultModule "en" "festival"

  #LanguageDefaultModule "cs"  "festival"

  #LanguageDefaultModule "es"  "festival"

3. Starting the applications/servers

Type in the command window:

festival --server 

sudo /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher restart

Start the GCS with the -speech option and there you go! (Hopefully)