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.

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)