Speech

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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.

You can test your setup with

spd-conf -d

Using festival

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

Packages Installation

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

sudo apt-get install festival speech-dispatcher speech-dispatcher-festival python-speechd

Configuration

Edit speechd.conf in /etc/speech-dispatcher/ with the command

sudo gedit /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
  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


Optionally edit festival.conf in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ and change/uncomment the following lines (these are the defaults so they don't need to be uncommented if not changed):

  # Address where the Festival server runs (you have to 
# have a Festival server running, please see documentation).
FestivalServerHost "localhost"
FestivalServerPort 1314

Starting the applications/servers

Type in the command window:

festival --server

You can test with

spd-conf --test-festival
spd-conf -d

You might have to kill your current speech-dispatcher for the changes to take effect.

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