espeak
 

i downloaded and installed espeak, but i cannot figure out how to use it. i cannot even find it but it shows that it is installed on the apps manager on the nokia n810

Re: espeak
 

Seems to me it might be just command line? Anyway, using my Newbie link below, I put in espeak and got this.

Re: espeak
 

Install Espeak
once installed go to x terminal
type
espeak "what_you_want_to_say"

Re: espeak
 

Anyone come up with some fun/useful ways to put espeak to use?

Re: espeak
 

Hide device under kid-brother/sister's bed and have it go "I need to eat flesh..."

or alternatively:

"Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!"

Re: espeak
 

I'm gonna use it with the fm transmit to take over the radio in my car share for work, put out a few personal messages!!!

Re: espeak
 

There's a FM Transmit app for Diablo?

Could someone post a link to this?

I'm not finding it anywhere.

Re: espeak
 

Hi All!

I know this is an old thread, but I'm unable to find any solution... Maybe someone is watching (:

So, my problem is: I use n900 with PR.1.3, power kernel v46. I installed espeak but it has no sound:
- when I type in terminal: espeak "hello", nothing happens.
- I installed espeakgui, has no sound either ("of course"), but it is able to export the text file to wav and play it via media player (or anything else) fine.

I typed in terminal: espeak "hello", echo $?. Result: 0. So technically it is working fine. So I typed: espeak "hello" --stdout | aplay; result: Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono. After that I run espeakgui from terminal, and the result is: process 13135: arguments to dbus_bus_request_name() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_bus_name (name)" failed in file dbus-bus.c line 1070. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
When I type text in espeakgui and play it, termial result is: espeak -v en -a 100 -p 50 -s 170 -g 10 "hello" &

So it seems to work fine, but no sound because of some dbus issue. Could someone please help me to solve this? Any idea appreciated.

Thanks,

jm

Re: espeak
 

On my N800 I seem to recall some bug that espeak wouldn't have sound if you just typed espeak "hello". You had to wind up creating a text file with the word hello in it and tell espeak to speak that. Then the word "hello" was spoken. This was a workaround but not a great solution as speaking from a text file seemed to have a large delay before starting to speak, which I attributed to having to open, parse and close the file rather than redirect from standard input.

Again this was on the N800, not sure if N900 version would have a similar bug or not.

Re: espeak
 

That might indeed be your problem. The current kernel-power version is 52.

FWIW, I have just tried espeak including your exact commands on my N900 and it works fine.