Installing Speech

Orca supports a variety of speech synthesis systems: gnome-speech, Speech Dispatcher, and emacspeak speech servers.

See the following for now:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechSynthesisEngines

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/GnomeSpeech

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher

Quick note on Speech on Ubuntu Gutsy

eSpeak does not work well as shipped on Ubuntu Gutsy as of this writing on 14-Aug-2007. Here's some quick notes for Linux-savvy people to try to get eSpeak working:

1. Download/build/install PortAudio v19 stable (061121)

   1. gunzip/untar it and cd to the portaudio directory
   2. ./configure --prefix=/usr; make; sudo make install; sudo ldconfig

2. Download/build/install eSpeak 1.28

   1. unzip it and cd to the espeak-1.28-source directory
   2. cd src; cp /usr/include/portaudio.h .
   3. make; sudo make install

3. Download/build/install gnome-speech 0.4.16

   1. gunzip/untar it and cd to the gnome-speech-0.4.16 directory
   2. ./configure --prefix=/usr; make; sudo make install

Worked for me (Will).