sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek » emacspeak http://sachachua.com/wp I help people connect through blogs, wikis, other Web 2.0 tools. I'm also writing a book about Emacs. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:54:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en Emacs and a British voice http://sachachua.com/wp/2006/10/12/emacs-and-a-british-voice/ http://sachachua.com/wp/2006/10/12/emacs-and-a-british-voice/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:53:00 +0000 Sacha Chua http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/2006.10.12.php#anchor-4 There's something about deep, deep cultural programming. Anything spoken with a British accent just sounds infinitely cool. Everyone uses the default voice for Asterisk and all of that - an American male.

You want to install festvox-rablpc16k or festvox-rablpc8k in addition to all the usual things you need for emacspeak. You'll also need espeakf from CVS.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@espeakf.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/espeakf login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@espeakf.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/espeakf co -P espeakf
cd espeakf
sudo make install

One of these lines is responsible for setting up espeakf. I just can't be bothered with figuring out which. ;) Probably the dtk-program line.

(setq dtk-program "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/espeakf.pl")
(setenv "DTK_TCL" dtk-program)
(setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" dtk-program)

Then add this to your /etc/festival.scm:

(set! voice_default 'voice_rab_diphone)

Yummy British accent goodness.

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]]> There's something about deep, deep cultural programming. Anything spoken with a British accent just sounds infinitely cool. Everyone uses the default voice for Asterisk and all of that - an American male.

You want to install festvox-rablpc16k or festvox-rablpc8k in addition to all the usual things you need for emacspeak. You'll also need espeakf from CVS.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@espeakf.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/espeakf login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@espeakf.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/espeakf co -P espeakf
cd espeakf
sudo make install

One of these lines is responsible for setting up espeakf. I just can't be bothered with figuring out which. ;) Probably the dtk-program line.

(setq dtk-program "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/espeakf.pl")
(setenv "DTK_TCL" dtk-program)
(setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" dtk-program)

Then add this to your /etc/festival.scm:

(set! voice_default 'voice_rab_diphone)

Yummy British accent goodness.

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