Speech
Speech
The GCS is able to provide the messages of the console via the speakers by starting with the option -speech. Therefore a few more packages have to be installed and configured. The following Instruction is made for Ubuntu 8.04 but should work also on other OS.
1. Packages Installation
Install festival, spech-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
FestivalAudioOutputMethod "alsa"
further 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
and there you go! (Hopefully)