@ LGB: I’ve also applied a fix to setup.py similar to the last one I’ve proposed, I hope it works!

Oh, looking at it again I think I’ve found the problem. Please try changing the line:
self._destdir = os.path.join(self.root, self.prefix.strip(‘/’))
To:
self._destdir = self.prefix

Thanks for letting me know about it!

Most of the features espeak-gui doesn’t have were already planned and should be straightforward to implement. The only one which has me curious is the “mbrola voices” support, I’ll have to look into that! Maybe I’ll be even able to borrow some code from there, as Gespeaker is also using Python and a compatible license.

(On a technical side, espeak-gui has the advantage that it uses libespeak instead of calling the “espeak” binary in a subprocess, so it’s doing it the proper way, but I guess for end-users this difference isn’t really noticeable.)

@ LGB:

I don’t know what the problem could be then :/.

But well, if you’ve got python-espeak installed you can run espeak-gui right there, without needing to install it; just run “./espeak-gui” inside its source directory.

You can also install it semi-manually, by deleting the “cmdclass = {‘install’: _install},” line from the setup.py, installing it, and then creating the missing symlinks manually:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/espeak-gui/espeak-gui /usr/bin/espeak-gui
sudo ln -s /usr/share/espeak-gui/data/espeak-gui.png /usr/share/pixmaps/espeak-gui.png

Or even better, if you’re on a Debian-based system use the .deb packages from my PPA, those work :).

http://code.google.com/p/gespeaker/

Try changing in setup.py the line:
self._destdir = os.path.join(self.root, self.prefix.strip(‘/’))
to the following:
self._destdir = os.path.join(self.root, self.prefix.strip(‘/’) if self.prefix else ‘usr’)

If that works I’ll commit the fix. Can you also try whether running “sudo python setup.py install –prefix=/usr” (without doing the above change) works?

Thanks!

lgb@oxygene:/tmp/x/espeak-gui-0.1$ sudo python setup.py install
running install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “setup.py”, line 60, in
‘Environment :: X11 Applications :: GTK’,
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py”, line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py”, line 975, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py”, line 995, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File “setup.py”, line 24, in run
self._destdir = os.path.join(self.root, self.prefix.strip(‘/’))
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/posixpath.py”, line 67, in join
elif path == ” or path.endswith(‘/’):
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘endswith’

@ Rabe:

At the moment I’m happy with “espeak-gui” (it’s simple and says exactly what it is, a GUI for eSpeak), though I may consider renaming it to something else, so any suggestions are welcome.

However, I’d like to keep the name something unique, for Google karma, so I won’t name it “Reader” or anything else like that.

In regards to keeping it understandable, that’s a good point, but only up to a certain degree as non-technical users shouldn’t really need to worry about the name (I suppose I should improve the Debian package’s description to explain what it does in plain terms, though).

@ Matt:

Writing a plugin for that shouldn’t be too difficult, but I don’t use Evolution so you’ll have to look for someone else to work on it :).

appreciate your work. What about calling it something not that technical? Like “Read”, “Reader” .. :D