Comments on: espeak-gui 0.2

By: producer

producer — Sat, 15 May 2010 20:23:09 +0000

eSpeak is great. With eSpeak, I create the phonemes for my pronunciation dictionaries.

By: phillw

phillw — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:48 +0000

Hi,
sorry not been back to you — There was a project called FireVox that worked with the FireFox browser. Very sadly, it appears to have lapsed support with FF 3.6, and non forthcoming. However, the guy who did it all has all the code available to any who wish to use it. Don’t know if you and friends would be interested in that sort of project.

If you head over to the Assistive Technology Forum they would be more than happy to up-date you, else I can put you onto the mailing list for things like Orca so you can see what is currently going on & where things are heading.

People interested in such things are always welcome.

Phill.

By: phillw

phillw — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:17:33 +0000

XHTML Strict, requires the alt tag for images (it is a ‘may have’ in other variants) For Tables, head over to http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-tables.html Specifically http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-tables.html#non-visual-rendering

I’m using the ‘scope’ variant and not the ‘headers / id’ variant. I haven’t put a summary into my tables, as the title of the table is explanation enough and I’ve had enough ‘fun’ keeping the XHTML Strict Certification whilst building and echo’ing the various table commands needed and meaningful alt tags in PHP from a MySQL database !!!

Rule508 can be found over here –> http://www.hisoftware.com/uaccess/Index.html

The logic of how the reader would parse a table seems straight forward enough, but I’m not a proficient enough coder to even attempt such a thing !!

If you’re using FireFox as a browser, there is an add-on called Web Developer, that will give you checking by w3c of css and (x)html etc. It also includes a tester for Rul508. (aka “Cynthia Says” as it browses the web page like an aural browser would & checks to see if the things required are there) – It’s quite a bit to take on board at first, but does not actually mean a whole lot of re-writing if you’re using XHTML-Strict to begin with.

If there’s anything else I can do to further help you, please feel free to e-mail me.

Regards,

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:55:27 +0000

@ phillw:

Any pointers on where I can read more about that?

By: phillw

phillw — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:25:32 +0000

Yes, it is working fine. Now that it is in the Ubuntu Repositry, I will wait and see if anyone has a problem getting it from there. I removed the whole of the ~trunk directory after using Synaptic to get it – It’s all still working :-) (Still the same error message), all the files seems to have installed okay (e.g. the man entry has been made) – So, it looks good to go !!
Nice Application. Now, for your next trick … getting it to read a web page using the Rule508 rules for image & table descriptions – I’m coding a web-site to that set of rules, we do really need a Ubuntu (Debian) Web-Page reader, so, if you ever feel the urge … you can test it out on the site I’ve written :-D

Kind Regards,

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:36:02 +0000

@ phillw:

Thanks for the publicity :).

So is it working now for you? If so I think you can ignore those messages for now. It’s some problem with eSpeak and PulseAudio…

By: phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:55:06 +0000

Oh, by the way, I put a mention in on the Ubuntu Assistive Technology forum, it’s over here –> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1064210&page=2

By: phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:47:20 +0000

Installed alsa-oss, invoking as this
phillw@piglet:~/trunk/espeak-gui-0.2$ aoss ./espeak-gui

Same error message. Repeated the four times.

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:36:55 +0000

@ phillw:

Uhm, try running it with “aoss” (ie. “aoss espeak-gui” instead of just “espeak-gui”; you’ll need to install the alsa-oss package first).

By: phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:32:59 +0000

KEWL !! – It works. I started it from the command line (couldn’t see it the menu system any where, but I can always add it). When I started it from terminal I got bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

Repeated four times.

I look forward to having a ‘play’ with it.

Thanks for all the help in getting it set up,

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000

@ phillw:

Sorry, seems like I missed that comment. You just need to install python-distutils-extra.

By: phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:20:43 +0000

Hi, have you got any further tracing the error reported January 24, 2010 at 20:49 – Thanks,

Phill.

By: phillw

phillw — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:52:19 +0000

Oh, P.S. phillw@piglet:~/trunk$ sudo python setup.py install didn’t report any errors.

By: phillw

phillw — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:49:13 +0000

Back again :-\
$ wget -c http://launchpad.net/espeak-gui/trunk/0.2/+download/espeak-gui-0.2.tar.gz $ tar -xzvf espeak-gui-0.2.tar.gz; cd espeak-gui-0.2 seemed to go well, various files downloaded and moved to directory /home/phillw/trunk/espeak-gui-0.2
However phillw@piglet:~/trunk/espeak-gui-0.2$ python setup.py build reports back

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “setup.py”, line 7, in
from DistUtilsExtra.command import *
ImportError: No module named DistUtilsExtra.command

On the plus side, not too many commands to go !!

Regards,

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:20:37 +0000

@ phillw:

I don’t see any fatal error there. Try continuing with “sudo python setup.py install”.

By: phillw

phillw — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:55:44 +0000

Got the two build dependencies … (python 2.6.4 it has put on for python dev)
I now get …
phillw@piglet:~/trunk$ python setup.py build
running build
running build_ext
building ‘espeak.core’ extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp -o build/tempg++ -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/espeak/espeakmodulecore.o -lespeak -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/espeak/core.so
.linux-i686-2.6/espeak/espeakmodulecore.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option “-Wstrict-prototypes” is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp: In function ‘PyObject* espeak_set_voice(PyObject*, PyObject*, PyObject*)’:
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:181: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:181: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:181: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:181: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:181: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
g++ -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/espeak/espeakmodulecore.o -lespeak -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/espeak/core.so

Thanks for bearing with me !!

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:11:53 +0000

@ phillw:

You’re missing two build dependencies: python-dev and libespeak-dev.

By: phillw

phillw — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:58:45 +0000

Hi, well I cd’d okay to the dierctory, but sudo python setup.py build started off well, then …
running build
running build_py
building ‘espeak.core’ extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/espeak/espeakmodulecore.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option “-Wstrict-prototypes” is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:21:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:22:30: error: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:25: error: expected initializer before ‘*’ token
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:26: error: expected initializer before ‘*’ token
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:30: error: ‘espeak_EVENT_TYPE’ was not declared in this scope
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:30: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:30: error: expected primary-expression before ‘int’
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:30: error: initializer expression list treated as compound expression
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:31: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘{’ token
espeak/espeakmodulecore.cpp:30: warning: ‘DoCallback’ defined but not used
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

Which doesn’t look too happy.
phillw@piglet:~/trunk$ ls -l reports back
drwxr-xr-x 4 phillw phillw 4096 2010-01-24 00:26 build
-rw-r–r– 1 phillw phillw 35068 2010-01-24 00:03 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x 2 phillw phillw 4096 2010-01-24 00:03 debian
drwxr-xr-x 2 phillw phillw 4096 2010-01-24 00:03 espeak
-rw-r–r– 1 phillw phillw 532 2010-01-24 00:03 setup.py

If you need anymore information, please ask.

Regards,

Phill.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:23:39 +0000

@ phillw:

Oh. With that command the directory is called “trunk” instead of “python-espeak” :).

By: phillw

phillw — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:10:42 +0000

Hi, well it went and did something (got a file) Branched 16 revision(s). - but cd python-espeak reports back so such directory & locate python-espeak reports back nothing found. Sorry to bother you.. I'd like to get it working as I've said I'd give it a try out on the unbuntu Assistive Technology & Accessibility for them, as I have 10.04. Thanks, Phill.